Security, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies often operate within a rapidly evolving and interconnected threat landscape. Threats abound, including but certainly not limited to transnational organized crime, terrorism, cybercrimes, sanctions evasions, and foreign state-sponsored market interference.
Moody’s actionable threat intelligence helps government agencies strengthen national security risk management—with data and tools designed to support faster and more effective criminal investigations, enforcement, and operational readiness.
Our proprietary datasets and analytical tools support agencies in anticipating risks, identifying threats and vulnerabilities, and coordinating responses to threats across jurisdictions and domains.
Investigators, enforcement officers, security officers, and special agents use our network graphing tools to illuminate ultimate beneficial owners, cross-border financial flows, and hidden ownership structures at the root of national security threats.
Intelligence analysts, targeting analysts, and counterintelligence officers use our verified and contextualized data and risk analytics to support faster pattern recognition and identify emerging threats.
Police forces use our entity resolution and financial data to aid the detection and prevention of crime through faster identification of illicit financial activity, criminal networks, and trade smuggling routes.
Gain access to contextual intelligence, delivered by graph networking and entity verification tools, to focus investigations and streamline workflows.
Orbis provides comprehensive, standardized, and up-to-date information on over 625 million companies worldwide. Access corporate hierarchies, beneficial ownership, foreign investments, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, financial details, and more to identify high-risk associations.
Entity resolution and ownership data can support investigations into foreign or hostile entities and help fortify national security operations and activities. This includes counterthreat finance, anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, and financial crime, narcotics trafficking, terrorist financing, counter-proliferation, entity vetting, network identification, procurement and acquisition screening, and security clearance vetting.
Our proprietary supplier risk data helps evaluate supply and logistics chains for foreign ownership, control, and influence; forced labor and modern slavery risk; commercial and economic security; and cyber resilience.
Comprehensive beneficial ownership, shell company risk, and ownership transfer data can support the identification of financial crime and maritime and border smuggling schemes.
Get intelligence on politically exposed persons (PEPs), watch-listed entities, and sanctioned entities using curated and normalized open-source intelligence (OSINT) data. Enhance understanding of threats monitored by both civilian and military intelligence agencies and across physical, digital, and financial domains.
Government agencies are tasked with doing it all. Learn how our firmographic risk intelligence data can support your unique use case.
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the fundamental nature of risk has changed.
Whether they are used to power green tech or increasingly sophisticated smart devices, the world needs “critical minerals” to move forward. The urgency, promise, and risk that these minerals represent are focal points of the era of exponential risk.
As sanctions enforcement measures and evasion tactics continue to evolve, compliance teams are navigating dynamic policy and regulatory changes. Learn how operational, data, and technological shifts are reshaping sanctions risk detection.
As Europe’s spending on defense rises, Moody's explores what this means for the public and private sectors, supply chains, and economic growth — and how it will affect credit and risk.
Shell companies can be used to obscure tariff and customs fraud schemes. Read about the methods bad actors use to evade trade reviews.
Monaco Police is now collaborating with Moody’s to access the world’s largest database of public and private entities – helping to bolster investigative capabilities.
Money laundering is the illegal process of taking money generated by criminal activity and making it seem to have come from legitimate sources by passing it through the financial system. Illicit proceeds can be laundered in different ways, and can involve large-scale organized crime activity across borders.
An exponential growth in data has coincided with the era of exponential risk - what does this mean for anti-financial crime and risk professionals? With ever increasing amounts of unstructured data and information at their fingertips, how can professional investigators implement sophisticated open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations to make informed decisions?
Large-scale fraud schemes and financial crime continue to pose serious financial and societal risks, draining valuable resources and eroding public trust in institutions. In the public sector, these crimes threaten government revenues, national security, and social stability—making swift, accurate investigations more critical than ever.
Entities subject to new US export control requirements could jump by a factor of more than six following a shift to an ownership-based model. The rule, paused until November 2026, could open exporters to new compliance and operational risks.
Learn how an FIU leverages Moody's data to inform intelligence reporting.
National security and law enforcement investigators investigating terrorism financing and its supporting fraudulent activity should understand the data signals that bad actors inadvertently produce and how to interpret them.
Open-source intelligence, or OSINT, is a type of data that can help investigators uncover answers with speed and precision. Knowing how to effectively leverage OSINT is the key to effectively understanding and building a case around potential threats or investigating wrongdoing.
By using data and analytics, national security analysts can anticipate threats, and maintain a decisive edge over adversaries.
How is an ultimate beneficial owner defined? How do ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) disclosure requirements differ across the world? What information, if any, needs to be collected for due diligence, and where does that data reside? It is time to take stock of the world of UBO definitions, disclosures, and data—and consider its role in the fight against financial crime and money laundering.
Financial crime poses a significant threat to government revenues, national security, and society more broadly, which makes it crucial for state departments and public sector teams to pursue swift and accurate investigations.
In the fight against organized crime, business activity intelligence is a powerful tool for investigators to identify, track and obfuscate criminal activity. Discover how digital footprints criminal leave behind in their daily activities can embolden an ongoing investigation.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are locked in a chess game with their criminal organization adversaries. To avoid detection and capture, bad actors rely on staying several moves ahead. For investigators, the enduring challenge is that the game has fundamentally changed – and not in their favor.
Public Safety Canada stated there were more than 4,000 organized crime groups in Canada in 2024, many of which were or are involved in financial crime. According to a Criminal Intelligence Service Canada report, an estimated CAD$45 billion-CAD$113 billion is laundered through Canada every year, including via illicit shell companies and drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.
Let's get into the evolving world of fraud on KYC Decoded, where the complexity and sophistication of fraud now poses new and daunting challenges for professionals and organizations alike. This episode draws on invaluable insights from the Cifas Fraudscape report, brought to life by guest, Stephen Dalton, Director of Intelligence at Cifas.
Discover 10 ways public-private partnerships enhance national security, from tech innovation to resource optimization. Learn how these collaborations provide a strategic edge in risk management and adaptability to emerging threats.
Financial crime and those that seek to combat it are caught in a never-ending cat and mouse game marked by ever-evolving criminal tactics, hidden human costs, and the relentless drive to stop them.
Unmasking financial risks and potential corporate crimes with Moody’s Shell Company Indicator.
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