Product profile
Moody's Maxsight
By Moody's
A configurable risk-management platform that combines data and automated workflows for customer and third-party screening, with PEP, sanctions, adverse-media, watchlist, and ownership information.
Product research reviewed
Research notes
What the public record shows
- Overview
- A configurable risk-management platform that combines data and automated workflows for customer and third-party screening, with PEP, sanctions, adverse-media, watchlist, and ownership information.
- Moody's profile context
- Moody's provides data, analytics, and workflow solutions for compliance and third-party risk. Its Maxsight platform supports configurable screening and monitoring workflows that bring together sanctions, watchlists, PEP, adverse-media, beneficial-ownership, and entity-risk information.
- Primary use cases
- Digital onboarding, PEP screening, customer and third-party due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and alert review.
- Target customers
- Not publicly disclosed
- Data coverage
- Moody's describes Maxsight data as including sanctions, watchlists, PEPs, adverse media, and ownership information.
- Deployment
- Not publicly disclosed
- Integrations
- Not publicly disclosed
- Implementation
- Not publicly disclosed
- Pricing approach
- Not publicly disclosed
- Documented strengths
- Not publicly disclosed
- Limitations and considerations
- Not publicly disclosed
Evidence matrix
Capabilities
The table covers every canonical capability in the product's listed categories.Unverified means the reviewed public sources did not confirm the capability; it does not mean the capability is absent. “Not supported” is used only for a directly sourced, explicit limitation.
| Category | Capability | Evidence state | Source note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer & Entity Screening | Fuzzy & phonetic matchingHandles transliteration, spelling variants, and name-order differences. | Partial | Moody's documents pattern-based matching and entity resolution across names, aliases, and transliterations, but does not state support for every element of the canonical fuzzy-and-phonetic definition, such as phonetic matching and name-order handling.Official evidence ↗ |
| Customer & Entity Screening | Secondary identifier matchingUses DOB, nationality, ID numbers to reduce false positives. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Customer & Entity Screening | Ongoing re-screeningAutomatically re-screens the customer base on list updates. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Customer & Entity Screening | Batch screeningSupports bulk/periodic screening of full portfolios. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Customer & Entity Screening | Match decision audit trailMatch dispositions are recorded with reviewer, time, and rationale. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| PEP Screening | Tiered PEP classificationPEPs classified by prominence/risk tier. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| PEP Screening | RCA coverageCovers relatives and close associates. | Partial | Moody's PEP page explicitly documents identifying close associates. It does not establish full relatives-and-close-associates product coverage.Official evidence ↗ |
| PEP Screening | HIO coverageCovers heads of international organizations. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| PEP Screening | Data freshnessPEP status changes are reflected in the data on a regular maintenance cycle. | Partial | Moody's states that its solutions help track changes in PEP status over time, but the page does not publish a maintenance cadence.Official evidence ↗ |