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Moody’s

Entity intelligence and compliance suite

Moody’s compliance portfolio combines company and ownership intelligence with risk screening and workflow tools. Orbis, Grid, Sanctions360, entity verification, and the broader compliance platform address different evidence needs. The major distinction is the ability to connect a company to the entities and people behind it.

Our assessment

Much more than a sanctions list, but transaction fraud and operational AML monitoring need a separate scope test.

Best fit and limitations

Especially relevant when KYB and ownership exposure are hard problems: multi-layer entities, global businesses, suppliers, and complex merchant groups.

  • A company record may be incomplete or stale; test actual merchant geographies and entity types.
  • Financial or credit data in the corporate portfolio does not establish a ready-made merchant underwriting workflow.
  • Confirm current names, entitlements, and migration paths across legacy and newer products.

Tools 9

Orbis for ComplianceCompany and ownership intelligence
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  • Entity and corporate ownership records
  • Context for beneficial ownership and company risk
Source 1
GridScreening risk data
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  • Sanctions, PEP, adverse media, and watchlist profiles
  • Categorized events and metadata for risk review
Source 2
Sanctions360Sanctions exposure
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  • Extend evaluation beyond a simple name match
  • Connect sanctioned entities to relevant relationships
Source 1
Entity Verification + Shell Company IndicatorKYB evidence
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  • Entity verification API offerings
  • Signals for potential shell-company risk
Source 1
Moody’s for ComplianceRisk operations
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  • Entity search, ownership, and risk assessment
  • Screening and due diligence in a shared platform
Source 3
Due Diligence AgentInvestigation assistance
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  • Research and draft structured due diligence reports
  • Source attribution, approval steps, and analyst ownership of conclusions
Source 5
Compliance CatalystExisting product context
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  • Combines Orbis and Grid with customer data
  • Confirm current packaging and migration path
Source 4
Kompany KYC API and workspacePrimary-source business records
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  • Search company registries through a REST API or web application
  • Retrieve structured JSON, original filings, and ownership records
  • Enable selected monitoring, tax-ID, and UBO services
Source 6
Moody’s MCP serverLicensed research retrieval
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  • Find Moody’s entities and related research
  • Retrieve ratings, outlooks, drivers, and scorecards
  • Authenticate with OAuth before using licensed data
Source 7

AI capabilities

Entity intelligence + Due Diligence Agent

The Due Diligence Agent coordinates research and report drafting using Moody’s data and selected external sources. It produces structured findings with source attribution. Analysts own the final conclusions.

Retrieve due diligence evidencePrepare sourced investigation reportsSupport customer risk review
What to validate

Test source dates, incomplete ownership chains, contradictory records, and analyst approval. Confirm the licensed data and deployment scope.

Source 5

Implementation

Integration checklist
  • Define legal entity resolution, ownership traversal, and source refresh rules.
  • Test ambiguous business matches and missing UBO records.
  • Connect screening findings to your case system with source and date context.
Commercial scope

Quote required. Separate company data, screening data, ownership depth, API calls, workflows, and analyst access.

Questions for the demo
  1. Can you show the entire ownership chain and the evidence for each edge?
  2. How are stale, unavailable, or conflicting registry records represented?
  3. Which products are needed for continuous KYB and sanctions review?

Engineering

Entity Verification API scopeChecked 2026-09-18Entity Verification technical overviewChecked 2026-09-18Kompany delivery contractChecked 2026-09-18MCP retrieval and authorizationChecked 2026-09-18
Your systemInputs & context
Moody’sChecks & signals
Your controlsDecision & review
Illustrative integration boundary. Confirm the actual interfaces and decision authority.
Inputs
Company search and selected registry/document requests · Entity identifiers, names, or research queries
Outputs
Entity, registry, and ownership information for due diligence · Structured JSON and original registry documents · Entity IDs, research results, ratings, outlooks, drivers, and scorecards
Webhooks
Not verified in public documentation.
Decision timing
No measured latency or contracted response time verified.
Deployment
REST API or hosted KYC workspace · Remote Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint
Dependencies
Selected registry, monitoring, translation, and UBO services require the relevant access · Moody’s credentials, OAuth authentication, and licensed dataset access
Verified details 9
  • Outputs

    Entity, registry, and ownership information for due diligence

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Inputs

    Company search and selected registry/document requests

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Outputs

    Structured JSON and original registry documents

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Deployment

    REST API or hosted KYC workspace

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Dependency

    Selected registry, monitoring, translation, and UBO services require the relevant access

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Inputs

    Entity identifiers, names, or research queries

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Outputs

    Entity IDs, research results, ratings, outlooks, drivers, and scorecards

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Deployment

    Remote Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
  • Dependency

    Moody’s credentials, OAuth authentication, and licensed dataset access

    Source Checked 2026-09-18
Illustrative contract

An example for your internal adapter. This is not a vendor endpoint, request, or response.

json
{
  "contract": "internal-risk-review/v1",
  "vendorId": "moodys",
  "internalCorrelationId": "example-001",
  "vendorRecordId": null,
  "control": "Company and ownership intelligence",
  "evidence": [],
  "status": "pending",
  "decision": "review",
  "requiresHumanReview": true
}
Integration limits
  • Illustrative internal integration contract. This is not a vendor request, response, endpoint, or SDK example.
  • Empty country, deployment, or provider lists mean not verified in this review. A documented country refers to the specific product noted in its source, not universal platform coverage.
  • Public material describes API data scope but not a complete integration contract. A global coverage count is not a named-country availability list or a registry freshness guarantee.
  • Authentication, callbacks, latency, and deployment options require vendor documentation beyond this public overview.
  • The page's worldwide total does not specify each check available in each country.
  • Published tools retrieve information; they do not submit filings or execute lending decisions.

Sources 8

Current KYC product portfoliowww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product
Grid risk databasewww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product
Moody’s for Compliancewww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product
Compliance Catalystwww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product
Due Diligence Agent and analyst controlswww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Announcement
Kompany KYB API and workspacewww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product
Moody’s MCP connection and toolswww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Documentation
Compliance automation and agent boundarieswww.moodys.com2026-09-18 · Reviewed
Product

Source review dates are shown above. Product claims come from public sources. Fit, limits, and evaluation questions are our analysis. This is not a hands-on performance test. Methodology · Changelog