Smarter screening, powered by AI

Streamline customer or supplier screening and compliance workflows with intelligent, automated solutions from Moody’s.

Harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help detect and manage third-party risks with greater speed, precision, and confidence.

Whether onboarding a new third party or monitoring an existing business relationship, Moody's solutions empower teams to focus on what matters most—mitigating risk, meeting regulatory obligations, and business growth.

  • Reduce false positives by as much as 80%
  • Accelerate decision-making 
  • Continuously monitor counterparties 
  • Improve risk and compliance workflows 

For more information or to see intelligent screening in action, please get in touch with the team any time.



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Could you unlock deeper insights with Maxsight™?


Moody's Maxsight™


Moody’s Maxsight™ supports intelligent screening by helping to deliver powerful, structured insights from unstructured data.

It can help transform vast volumes of adverse media, regulatory filings, and public records into actionable intelligence—helping you assess risk across business relationships with greater speed and precision.

Maxsight™ empowers teams to make faster, smarter decisions—backed by AI and Moody’s trusted data.





Have you tailored customer and supplier screening to your risk appetite?

Starting with your organization’s unique risk appetite and its regulatory landscape, Moody’s intelligent screening solutions can be built to align with your specific compliance requirements—helping you assess and manage risk across all business relationships.

Map your current processes to help identify gaps where risks could go undetected and highlight opportunities for efficiency. This could help reduce the likelihood of non-compliance while strengthening your overall risk posture.

As part of your digital transformation journey, we support the implementation of AI-driven controls and procedures. Our flexible solutions can evolve with your needs and adapt in a fast-changing risk environment.




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Sanctions and watchlist screening

Understand which entities are subject to sanctions, including those sanctioned through indirect ownership and control. Go beyond watchlists and get the most up-to-date data, sourced directly from national registers and government authorities.

Combine this data with a comprehensive record of individuals and organizations connected to sanctioned entities and integrate it directly with your ongoing monitoring workflows. Then you have a powerful, intelligent solution to meet a complicated challenge.






Are you screening for shell company-related risks?

Screening for shell company-related risks is rapidly becoming a regulatory imperative. Moody's shell company indicator can be an invaluable tool in any intelligent screening process.

Understand and identify risky corporate structures in your counterparty network to make better decisions about your business relationships. Automate the process of flagging high-risk entities that could be used to facilitate crimes like fraud and money laundering.

Incorporate shell company indicator into your screening processes to strengthen enhanced due diligence and risk-based decision making. 




Could you leverage adverse media screening?

Uncover hidden risk relevant to your organization with the world’s leading negative news screening solution.

Moody's adverse media database monitors from the earliest indication of risk—from accusation through to conviction. Automate your search with carefully selected media sources and apply powerful filters such as risk code, stage, and rating to home in on relevant risk. Benefit from decades of analyst decisioning powered by AI and help reduce false positives.



How do you screen for politically exposed persons (PEPs)?

Our global politically exposed persons (PEPs) dataset uses a unique risk-rating system that considers the country, position, level, and event risks associated with PEPs.

This data is available and updated in near real-time, so you don't have to wait to identify a new and relevant risk in your counterparty network.




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Entity screening

Could we help you reduce false positives?

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Name matching

Hudson Martin, Associate Director of Product Management at Moody’s, explores how intelligent screening powered by machine learning enhances anti-money laundering efforts. Learn how culture-based name matching, precise risk tagging, and AI models that reflect human policy decisions can help streamline compliance. 







Model governance and Generative AI

Mike Xu, Director of Data Strategy at Moody’s, shares how generative AI is transforming screening and ongoing monitoring. Learn how AI enhances model governance, strengthens data infrastructure, and delivers structured insights that simplify manual processes. 





Risk profiles and negative news screening

Colleen Dychdala, Associate Director of Data Operations at Moody’s, explains how intelligent customer screening helps build detailed “riskographies” through curated data. With AI-powered negative news screening and streamlined data ingestion to offer deeper risk insights and improve ongoing monitoring.





Risk Reframed podcast

Intelligent screening: How machine learning is changing the game


Screening has come a long way from manual name checks. With rising regulatory demands and evolving risk factors, technologies like Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) are transforming how compliance teams manage risk.

In this episode of Risk Reframed, Moody’s product specialists, Mike Xu and Victor Cotillon, join host Alex Pillow to explore:

  • Why screening is essential in KYC and AML
  • How fuzzy matching improves name recognition
  • Ways ML helps reduce false positives
  • The benefits—and limits—of integrating ML into intelligent screening
  • Why keeping humans in the loop still matters




Insights and resources intelligent screening

FATF's Recommendation 16 requires that providers of cross-border payment services (PSPs) include complete originator and beneficiary information in wire transfers. This is necessary to permit detection of the use of wire transfers by criminals or terrorists moving money.


In today's fast-paced and ever-expanding digital news landscape, the need for effective negative news screening (sometimes known as adverse media screening) in customer and supplier due diligence processes as well as ongoing risk monitoring can’t be overstated.


Shell companies can be used by criminals to conceal offenses such as fraud, tax crime, money laundering, and sanctions evasion, all of which pose a threat to the global economy. Against this background, there are significant moves from governments and the private sector to create more corporate transparency.


GenAI has demonstrated the effectiveness of a conversation-based paradigm for human learning and understanding in assisted writing and coding, creating diet plans, booking travel itineraries, and so on. And KYC processes can similarly benefit from GenAI chat-based workflows - providing a natural, human-friendly user experience.





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