Maxsight™ Investigations

Navigate complex investigations and enhanced due diligence



Make complex investigations and enhanced due diligence (EDD) more efficient with Maxsight™ Investigations. Drive faster insights into an investigation procedure without compromising quality.

Maxsight™ Investigations supports customers by centralizing and automating intelligence tasks and investigation workflows in one platform. Investigators can use curated, preloaded data sets layered with analytics to visualize and contextualize information relevant to their investigations. Or, use Maxsight Investigations as an enhanced due diligence tool, helping to identify and assess potential risks within your supply chain or customer base.

With this investigations and enhanced due diligence platform:

  • Search across billions of global data points in one place
  • Log anomalies and uncover risks with clear visualizations
  • Surface integrated risks between networks of entities and individuals
  • Explore relationships between data sets to identify patterns or relationships that may indicate suspicious or higher-risk activity
  • Leverage intelligence to build risk profiles






Maxsight™ Investigations: an authoritative data source and enhanced due diligence tool


Maxsight™ Investigations digitally transforms investigative workflows. Use this robust EDD tool and global data source to investigate potential bad actors and collect and contextualize intelligence on suspicious activity.

Follow digital leads to help address threats and risks related to financial crimes like money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption, embezzlement, tax evasion, and more.

Access global data efficiently without creating information overload. Reduce complexity and create clearer insights by uniting disparate data sets in one platform.


Use network visualizations to detect risk
Detect hidden risk using network visualizations

Dynamically map intricate corporate structures and beneficial ownership information during an investigation. Through clear graphical representations, it's possible to reveal unforeseen risks like connections to entities appearing on regulatory watchlists or other publicly available high-risk lists.

Produce clearer assessments based on powerful data
Produce clearer assessments based on powerful data

Identify suspicious activity and threats more effectively. Conduct robust, data-driven investigations that capitalize on diverse data sources and content, including business activity intelligence (BizINT), open-source intelligence (OSINT), social media intelligence (SOCMINT), global news media, and other publicly available materials.

Unlock insights and evidence
Improve investigative task management and unlock insights

Shift from data gathering to actionable reporting. Use a single platform for complex investigations. Search preloaded structured and unstructured data and integrate this with your own data sets to derive insights and information about potential threats and bad actors.

 




3 key capabilities of Maxsight™ Investigations

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1. Automated investigative workflows 
Take an automated, data-driven approach to complex investigations. Leverage pre-loaded data engines and pre-calculated risk filters to support evidence-based intelligence collection. Analyze connections among your investigation subjects.

2. Network visualization tools
Understand complex networks and hierarchies with intuitive, interactive visuals.

3. Integrated risk analysis framework
Surface risk and emerging threats with enriched data sets. Maintain audit trails to help inform reporting. Support deeper insights delivery with advanced analytics and EDD tools.






Benefits of Maxsight™ Investigations in EDD

Consolidate access to data sources, help reduce complexity, support improvements in operational consistency, and help improve data-driven decision-making via a designated environment.  

Strategic use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) and business activity intelligence (BizINT) can help analysts and investigators contextualize data, not just collect it, to help position organizations for proactive threat mitigation.

Draw from diverse data and content sources, including social media, news articles, and public records for more thorough anti-money laundering checks and investigations into third parties, high-risk customers, beneficial owners, or bad actors.

Leveraging proprietary business intelligence, investigators can be more active in uncovering critical insights, unseen risks, and potential threats.



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3 differentiators to optimize investigations

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A multi-faceted investigative tool

A single platform that supports in-depth investigations, intelligence contextualization, and risk identification workflows. Switch between tactical investigative work and strategic risk monitoring.

Automation meets human expertise
Automation meets human expertise

An investigator-focused solution, where automation helps reduce manual processing while leaving investigators in control of making decisions.

Robust inputs produce comprehensive outputs
Robust inputs for more comprehensive outputs

Access to structured and unstructured data, combined with curated data and risk analytics, for more robust and proactive investigations.





Sectors Maxsight™ Investigations supports

Whether supporting AML compliance, conducting compliance investigations into suspicious activity or looking into high-risk customers, this platform can help drive efficiency.

Maxsight™ Investigations helps enhanced due diligence professionals and intelligence analysts across a range of sectors including government departments and agencies, financial institutions, and a variety of corporations. 

For more industry-specific information about Moody's solutions for third-party risk management, compliance, KYC, and more, please read on.

To discuss Maxsight™ Investigations and how Moody's EDD tools can support regulatory requirements, please get in touch with the team any time.



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2025 Datos Impact Award in Fraud and AML

Moody’s is excited to have won the 2025 Datos Impact Award for Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation.





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