Third-party risk & threat management solutions for government bodies

Government

In today’s data-driven world, scale and complexity are at levels not seen by government agencies before. Being data-driven is no longer an aspiration, it is a necessity. Government agencies need to adapt, to become more efficient, and to make better use of the internal and open source intelligence (OSINT) data now available.

At Moody’s, we provide deep data intelligence and predictive analytics to help our government customers protect and defend national security and make faster, more efficient, and transparent decisions. Across government agencies, we provide analysts, investigators, regulators, and policymakers with far-reaching insight into hidden threats, potential risks, and into disruptors of strategic, operational, and tactical missions.




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An integrated approach

Key challenges in government & national security

We work with Government agencies, teams, and departments across the world to support a wide range of critical policy challenges through a variety of use cases and solutions. Moody’s compliance and third-party risk management (TPRM) solutions can help drive improvements in efficiency, data integration, automation, investigation, and scalability. Making the best of your teams, resources, and processes.

Automate risk assessment, identification, and investigation processes. Access real-time individual and entity data and conduct targeted checks. Identify risks and manage threats. Prevent financial crime and organized crime at scale.


Key challenges in government



Supporting efficient, effective investigations

Maxsight™ Investigations

See how Maxsight™ Investigations can support investigators with comprehensive, global data sources to make research tasks more efficient and effective.

The solution centralizes and automates compliance investigation workflows in one platform. Access a vast data estate including curated datasets, advanced analytics, and structured and unstructured data for more robust investigations.

Find out about the platform and its key features, or get in touch with the team for more information.







Uncover potential sanctions-related risk

Sanctions evasion actions can be part of a larger network, designed to circumvent detection and enforcement at scale. Moody’s latest whitepaper explores how sanctions developments may impact monitoring best practice and investigations globally.





Business activity intelligence

How corporate data footprints can help identify security threats

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Bad actors have an unfair advantage over law enforcement and intelligence agencies: they can use communications technologies to misdirect and mobilize at lightning speed. Thankfully, investigators can use business activity intelligence (BizINT) to their advantage. By using the digital footprints bad actors leave behind in public records, investigators can gain access to a wealth of actionable intelligence that adds color to a criminal investigation.

Discover how BizINT can revitalize and inform investigations into criminal activity – and what lies ahead for this powerful form of intelligence. 





How Moody's can help

5 areas of third-party risk management

Identification
Identification

Government bodies need to identify third parties they may have connections to or relationships with, through supplier contracts or other outsource arrangements. Moody's data and analytics tools can help identify the entities in third-party networks - even across many layers and different ownership structures.

Assessment
Assessment

Moody's compliance and third-party risk management solutions can provide the means to conduct risk assessment and investigations of different kinds on entities and individuals globally. Assessing the risks associated with a third party using real-time data and innovative solutions helps evaluation of risks and threats.

Mitigation and action
Mitigation & action

Implement strategies to mitigate risks identified within a third-party network, for example offboarding a supplier, or use the intelligence gathered to act against a bad actor as a result of investigations. Use the data and evidence gathered through Moody's solutions to make informed decisions.


Monitoring
Monitoring

Continuously monitor for changing risk factors and emerging threats across a third-party network. Moody's can provide a perpetual approach to risk monitoring that ensures government bodies are alerted when material risk factors emerge either in relation to a supplier or an entity/person of interest.

Review
Review

Moody's can provide reporting and analytics to help government departments, teams and agencies assess the effectiveness of their risk management strategies, anti-financial crime processes, supplier due diligence, threat monitoring programs and more.



Five use cases

Government departments we help


Intel analysis, investigations, cyber

Tax authorities, anti-money laundering and fraud teams

Defense, health services, and central procurement

Development banks, export agencies, research funding, social care

Financial sector, charity sector, gambling sector, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance), and beyond


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Defense, intelligence, & law enforcement

Local, regional, and national police forces, trans-national enforcement agencies, financial intelligence units. Domestic and international-facing intelligence agencies, border control, customs, departments of defense, armed forces.

Global, standardized data enables cross-border strategy in a fraction of the time needed for data requests between allies. “Follow the money” by reviewing corporate hierarchies across borders, even when many layers of complexity exist. By networking ownership and control across our dataset of +500 million companies, we help you uncover complex ownership paths, to better understand where high levels of influence and control sit with minor shareholders and to see a chain that may include circular ownership, multiple/integrated ownership paths, and any bad actors engaged at relevant levels.

Download brochure: Intelligence capabilities for National Security

Tax authorities

As tax revenues are fundamental to funding the public sector, effective enforcement is critical to national objectives. By helping identify the network of beneficial owners using our leading entity data, industry performance benchmarks by industry code or country, and key individuals in the network, we can help with investigations that protect essential revenues enabling government priorities.

Download whitepaper: Integrating tax crimes in financial and economic crime prevention control 

Defense, health services, & central procurement

We help customers understand risks associated with suppliers through automated supplier due diligence or know your supplier processes. Across a supply chain, identify areas of threat or risk in terms of ownership, control, and any red flags present such as shell companies, high-risk jurisdictions, connections with human trafficking or modern slavery.

Dive deep into Tier 1, 2, 3, and 4 suppliers/vendors to better understand risk across your third-party network and deliver resilience in a supply chain - identifying risks before they impact delivery.

Download supplier risk management brochure.

Development banks, export agencies, research funding, social care

Government backed business loans, underwriting, research, or development grants and even benefits paid to individuals all have one thing in common – risk. It is important to understand if the organization is real, if it is reputable, and whether the funds will be used for their intended purpose before issuing a loan, grant, or benefits.

Anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, and reputational risk assessments cannot be based solely on national data when networks are international. Government agencies need to understand if there is a sanctioned entity in their chain, or a state actor controlling the acquisition in a sensitive industry.

For individuals, it is important to decipher whether claimants are making legitimate claims, or whether they are part of an organized, industrialized fraud scheme. Better insight is key to protecting revenue and delivering value to the public.

Financial sector, charity sector, gambling sector, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance), & beyond

By delivering best-in-class global data on a wide range of risks, then linking the risk flags to our global network of entities, companies, and directors we can support benchmarking, enforcement, and best practice as well as a “fit and proper” assessment of key individuals in a range of regulated sectors.






Data and analytics for national security

Trusted intelligence capabilities

Discover how Moody's addresses challenges in defense, intelligence, and law enforcement with actionable intelligence on global entities, individuals, and supply chains. Download this brochure for comprehensive details on our data, risk analysis and intelligence solutions designed to enhance effectiveness and operational efficiency.





Articles and insights

More resources for Government teams and departments


Watch Moody’s latest documentary exploring how European defense supply chains must adapt in response to emerging threats.

 



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.



A Europol report, shared in October 2024, looked into the largest criminal networks in Europe to identify those posing the most serious threat. The crime networks were categorized by how agile, borderless, controlling and destructive (ABCD) they were. 




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