Moody’s wins five categories in Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance50, 2025

On February 27, 2025, Chartis Research published its second Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC50) ranking and report. The FCC50 report evaluated nearly 300 vendors across core financial crime disciplines and identified 50 leaders in financial crime and compliance. These 50 leaders are setting new benchmarks for excellence in innovation, strategic direction, market presence, and customer success.

For the second consecutive year, Moody’s has been ranked in the top five and named the winner in five categories: Know Your Customer (KYC), master data management (inaugural category win), perpetual KYC (second year in a row), holistic risk platform (inaugural category win), and shell company detection (second year in a row). 

According to Chartis, this year’s report took a broad view of KYC and its evolution as a discipline from a workflow, checkbox-based approach to an understanding of customer risk that goes beyond an individual customer’s red flags and more toward an entity and ecosystem view. Moody’s excels here, and winning the inaugural holistic risk platform category is a testament to our commitment to providing customers with a unified view of risk that brings together thousands of datapoints to deliver a comprehensive view via one platform.

Third-party networks are intricate, involving layers of customers, partners, suppliers, and competitors.  It can be challenging for organizations to grasp who they are doing business with and the risks these associations may pose. We work with customers to shape their KYC, anti-financial crime, risk, and compliance programs around their risk appetite, operational needs, and strategic goals amid a complex risk landscape. Flexible and configurable, Moody’s Maxsight™ platform aims to maximize efficiency and insights into risk at an enterprise level.

Nick Vitchev, Research Director at Chartis, said:

‘On the robust foundation of its vast and expanding data assets, Moody’s is applying cutting-edge analytics and technology to turn data into a genuine 360-degree risk view. This approach not only redefines traditional KYC and financial crime measures but also extends to supplier risk and trade credit. Moody’s award (for holistic risk platform) highlights its capability to transcend conventional methods by integrating data and indices from various sources, including ESG, shell companies, and credit, thereby fostering a comprehensive and deeper understanding of holistic risk management.’

Keith Berry, Head of Corporates and Governments at Moody’s, said:   

"We are proud to have ranked in the top five for the second consecutive year and to have won five categories in Chartis’ FCC50 report. Being recognized among the leading companies in the fight against financial crime is a tremendous honor. Winning the ‘holistic risk platform’ category validates our belief that to unlock risk and decode opportunity, you really need a unified risk platform such as our recently launched Maxsight™ platform. Maxsight™ enables customers to revolutionize their risk management processes by consolidating datasets, automating workflows, and tailoring the platform to meet their unique business needs.”

Moody’s was ranked number one overall in the Chartis RiskTech100® 2025 report for the third year in a row, winning in 12 individual categories. The Chartis RiskTech100® study evaluates and ranks the top 100 global providers of risk technology solutions to determine the top industry players. Moody’s was also named a double category leader in Chartis’ KYC Data and Solutions, 2024 market quadrants report.