Company profile
Moody's Corporation functions worldwide as a comprehensive enterprise dedicated to risk evaluation. Its operations are bifurcated into two principal divisions: Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics. Moody's Investors Service is chiefly responsible for the issuance of credit ratings and the provision of in-depth assessment services. These evaluations encompass an extensive spectrum of debt instruments and their respective issuers, including obligations from corporations, financial institutions, governmental bodies, and structured finance vehicles, spanning roughly 140 nations. The segment's ratings are made public through press releases, various electronic media, and real-time information systems frequently employed by securities traders and investors. This division has an expansive rating footprint, having assessed tens of thousands of non-financial corporations, financial institutions, and public finance entities, hundreds of sovereign and supranational institutions, and thousands of infrastructure projects and structured finance deals. Conversely, Moody's Analytics develops and supplies a diverse array of products and services crafted to support the risk management needs of institutional participants within financial markets. Its offerings comprise subscription-based research, data, and analytical tools, including credit ratings and detailed research, quantitative credit scoring, economic forecasts, business intelligence, company information, and commercial real estate data and analytics. This segment also provides online and classroom-based training, professional credentialing and certification, along with offshore analytical and research support, and software solutions for risk management. Founded in 1900, the company was previously known as Dun and Bradstreet Company before adopting the name Moody's Corporation in September 2000. Its corporate headquarters are situated in New York, New York.
- CEO
- Robert Scott Fauber
- Employees
- 15,795
- IPO date
- 29 Jan 2018
- ISIN
- US6153691059
