Investment research

Credit ratings and research from Moody’s Ratings and forward-looking insights help investors conduct credit analysis and get a comprehensive view of global debt markets. Investors use our timely insights into the creditworthiness and risk profiles of diverse investments to make informed decisions.

Key capabilities:

For over a century, market participants have used Moody's research to gain insights into market trends and assess and monitor the creditworthiness of investments.

Moody’s credit risk models, backed by our expert advisors and knowledgeable client support team, help enable organizations to:

• Cover the full spectrum of credit risk, including retail, commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and structured finance
  
  

• Conduct model customization, validation, and benchmarking
  
  

• Perform training, implementation, applicability testing, and validation support

Moody's robust data helps investors stay ahead in an evolving market and outpace their competitors. Investors use our data to conduct comprehensive portfolio risk assessments and implement advanced quantitative trading strategies.

Our data solutions seamlessly integrate data feeds into trading and proprietary applications, helping investors with regulatory requirements.

We enhance the quality of information critical to sound investment decisions through key data features, including:

Receive real-time information on corporate actions, earnings announcements, and unanticipated news that can be filtered for trading and market-moving events; then processed, standardized, indexed, and delivered with near-zero latency.

Access globally standardized financial statements that cover debts, bankruptcy, default, and recovery data.

Leverage analytical tools and connectors that help support investment analysis and connect to trading and proprietary applications.

Moody’s global economic data, forecasts, analyses, and advisory services help firms understand and profit from market developments and trends.

Our economic data, forecasts, scenarios, and analytical tools help enable organizations to minimize risk and maximize revenue.

We help empower organizations to stay ahead in an evolving market with key economic features, including:

Access an extensive database with hundreds of millions of economic, demographic, and financial time series that provide a foundation for analysis, forecasting, and model development.

Perform "what-if?" analysis for risk management, compliance, and strategic planning using economic forecasts and scenarios developed with a robust model methodology.

Leverage forward-looking economic research that provides a timely analysis of the global economy and thought leadership on key trends and events at national and subnational levels.

Moody's company and corporate structure data combined with our sanctions and adverse media help businesses create a full picture of third-party risk.  

Our high-quality data covers millions of individuals and entities, helping enable companies to gain new levels of certainty on the risks of working with third-party entities and clarity on their ownership structures.

We help businesses identify risks within their networks through risk management tools, including:

Access customizable, advanced AI and machine learning, including name-matching advanced search filters and tailored support from expert analysts.

Leverage 1.2 billion ownership links, 1.05 billion historical links, and 184 million active links to support corporate transparency and in-depth risk understanding.