Moody's Analytics

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Moody's Analytics
legal form	Corporation
founding	2007
Seat	New York , United States
Number of employees	1,400
Branch	Financial services
Website	www.moodysanalytics.com

Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation . It was founded in 2007 separately from Moody's Investors Service. The company focuses on non-rating-related business activities and offers economic research in terms of credit analysis, performance management, financial modeling, structured analysis and financial risk management. In addition, there are quantitative analyzes and tools for credit risk management as well as software and advisory services, including economic models and training programs in the field of finance .

Moody's Analytics spans a number of different lines of business, including Moody's KMV, Moody's Economy.com, Moody's Wall Street Analytics, the Institute of Risk Standards and Qualifications, and the Canadian Securities Institute Global Education Inc.

history

In 1995, Moody's Corporation established the Moody's Risk Management Service (MRMS) business, which provided quantitative analysis services, including credit risk assessment software and services.

In the late 1990s, Moody's sought partnerships with other organizations and made acquisitions to expand its customer base and range of products.

In early 2000, Moody's acquired the Software Products Group from Crowe, Chizek & Co., then the eighth largest accounting and management consultancy in the United States. This gives Moody's access to software that banks used for risk analysis when extending commercial loans . In the same year, MRMS teamed up with RiskMetrics to develop software that combined credit risk analysis and portfolio management.

In February 2002, Moody's acquired KMV (Kealhofer McQuown Vasicek ), a San Francisco-based quantitative risk management company , and merged it with MRMS to form Moody's KMV. The company took over the customers and the software tool for calculating credit default probabilities, EDF (Expected Default Frequency), from KMV. Moody's KMV integrated the financial model software of all former companies and launched its credit risk management system Credit Monitor in 2003.

With the acquisition of Economy.com, an economic research and analysis company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 2005, Moody's expanded its offering to include research services on the economic and demographic level, country analysis and data on economic, financial and regional markets.

The following year, Moody's acquired San Francisco-based financial analysis and monitoring software developer Wall Street Analytics, later renamed Moody's Wall Street Analytics. With the acquisition, Moody's acquired software for financial risk management, including a tool for evaluating collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

In August 2007, Moody's Corporation created a new line of business for the combined non-rating activities, Moody's Analytics, which operates independently of Moody's Investors Service . The subsidiaries that Moody's Analytics currently includes include a. Moody's KMV, Economy.com, Wall Street Analytics, Fermat International, Enb Consulting Ltd., The Institute of Risk Standards and Qualifications (iRSQ) and most recently CSI Global Education Inc. The new division initially started operations with Moody's KMV, Economy.com and Wall Street Analytics. Other subsidiaries later joined Moody's Analytics as part of takeovers.

In 2008, Moody's Analytics acquired Fermat International, a Brussels-based provider of financial risk and performance management software in the banking sector that was used by over 100 banks in 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

In December 2008, Enb Consulting Ltd., a Surrey, England-based provider of professional education and training programs for the financial sector, was integrated into Moody's Analytics Training Services. This includes subject-specific and soft skills training for professionals from the banking sector and capital market experts.

In 2010, Moody's Analytics founded the Institute of Risk Standards and Qualifications (iRSQ), a facility for competence training and certification in financial risk management. The iRSQ qualification is recognized by the UK Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) and the certification program has been recognized by the Financial Services Skills Council as a training standard for applied risk management.

With the acquisition in November 2010 of the Canadian Securities Institute Global Education Inc. (CSI), a provider of training and certification programs for the financial sector, Moody's Analytics expanded its range of training courses. The CSI is best known for its introductory course in the stock and bond markets, the Canadian Securities Course, which is compulsory for all investment advisors licensed in Canada.

In June 2010, Moody's Analytics formed a strategic alliance with Experian to offer financial institutions software to manage consumer credit portfolios. The first joint product was called CreditCycle Plus and is a tool for forecasting potential losses and for carrying out stress tests for different loan portfolios.

In March 2011, Moody's Analytics announced a new computer program, Mortgage Portfolio Analyzer , developed by Moody's Research Labs to help portfolio managers manage credit risk.

In November 2011, Moody's Corporation acquired a majority stake in the companies of Copal Partners, a provider of third-party research and analysis services for institutional clients. With this takeover, Moody's Analytics is expanding its range of research, data, software and training services.

In December 2011, Barrie & Hibbert Limited, a leading provider of risk management modeling tools for insurance companies used by more than 150 customers, was integrated into Moody's Analytics risk management services across the company. These include software solutions for the insurance industry and the pension sector worldwide.

Products

Moody's Analytics flagships include a. the software packages Market Implied Ratings (MIR) and Expected Default Frequency (EDF). MIR applies the Moody's rating scale to price indicators in the credit and equity markets to show users investment opportunities. EDF assesses the likelihood of credit default based on various quantitative factors such as market capitalization , equity , volatility and capital structure .

Analysis and risk management software is also made available to financial institutions , including the RiskAnalyst credit risk management software, which is used to analyze creditworthiness-related data on commercial loans and to calculate risk. Moody's Analytics also provides tools for regulatory risk management and reporting, as well as balance sheet and liquidity risk management . With these products, organizations are able to cope with the challenges of regulatory control and reporting that they face in the context of Dodd-Frank, stress tests and Basel as well as Solvency II and transfer pricing.

Web links

• Moody's Analytics Germany
• Moody's Analytics

Individual evidence

1. ^ About Moody's Analytics . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
2. ↑ Timothy J. Sinclair : The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8014-7491-0 .
3. ^ Louise Bowman: Moody's blues . Airfinance Journal . November 2000
4. ^ Paul Dodson: Moody's aims to turn former Crowe, Chizek unit into global business. South Bend Tribune. February 20, 2000.
5. ↑ Moody's Acquires Crowe Chizek's Software Products Group; Combined Client Base to Reach Over 4,000 Financial Institutions in 50 States and 46 Countries ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Corporation. January 28, 2000. Retrieved August 30, 2011 (press release).
6. ^ Charles Keenan: Moody's Acquires Commercial Loan Software Operation . The American Banker . January 28, 2000.
7. ^ "Mergers & Acquisitions: Moody's to Buy Credit Risk Analyzer KMV for $ 210 Million" . Aaron T. Smith (February 12, 2002). The Bond Buyer .
8. ^ KMV History . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
9. ↑ "Moody's Corporation Completes Acquisition of KMV" ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Press release). Moody's Corporation. April 15, 2002. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
10. ↑ Moody's KMV Integrates RiskCalc with Credit Monitor " ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note . Christopher Faille (July 24, 2003). HedgeWorld Daily News . 
11. ↑ "Moody's Acquires Economy.com"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2005. Retrieved March 8, 2013.  
12. ↑ "Moody's Corporation Acquires Wall Street Analytics"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2006. Retrieved March 8, 2013.  
13. ^ "Moody's acquires Wall Street Analytics for undisclosed sum" . Reuters. December 18, 2006.
14. ^ "Suzanne Walker: Risk Management: Wall Street Analytics Unveil's New CDO Valuation Tool . Reuters. December 18, 2006.
15. ^ "Matthew Hanson: Moody's Corp. Divides Itself, Creates Non-Ratings Analytics Company . The Bond Buyer August 8, 2007, p. 3.
16. ^ Moody's Analytics to Acquire Fermat International . streetInsider.com, September 15, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
17. ↑ David Roisen: Moody's to acquire risk management software firm. SNL Kagan Media & Communications Report. September 16, 2008.
18. ↑ "Moody's Corporation acquires Fermat International" ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Financial Deals Tracker . October 14, 2008. 
19. ↑ Carolyn Murphy: Moody's Bags Fermat. Daily Deal / The Deal. September 16, 2008.
20. ^ Taigh Khan: Moody's unit acquires Enb Consulting. SNL Kagan Media & Communications Report. December 22, 2008.
21. ↑ Moody's Analytics Acquires Enb Consulting . Moody's Corporation. December 18, 2009. Accessed August 30, 2011 (press release).
22. ↑ Moody's Corporation acquires Fermat International ( Memento of the original dated February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's acquires Canadian Securities Course provider CSI Global for $ 155 million. The Canadian Press. November 22, 2010. 
23. ↑ iRSQ to certify risk competency standards ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . CPI Financial. September 13, 2010. 
24. ^ Matthew Hanson: Moody's Corp. Buys CSI Global Education ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Professional Services Close-Up. November 26, 2010. 
25. ↑ Experian and Moody's Analytics partner to offer consumer credit loss-forecasting and stress-testing product. In: Mortgage Banking. June 2010.
26. ^ Moody's Analytics Launches Mortgage Portfolio Analyzer (MPA) . Business Wire. March 8, 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011 (press release).
27. ↑ Moody's Corporation Acquires Majority Stake in Copal Partners ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
28. ↑ Moody's Corporation Acquires Barrie & Hibbert ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
29. ↑ Moody's Corporation Investor Relations ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Moody's Analytics, Inc. 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011.