Waters Rankings 2025: Best credit risk solution provider—Moody’s
Name of product or service: Moody’s CreditView with Research Assistant
Overview
With risks growing more complex and data volumes rising, relevant information is crucial for financial services firms but it is increasingly hard to access. Moody’s CreditView with Research Assistant combines the firm’s proprietary data, analytics, and GenAI-powered insights, helping credit and investment professionals reduce noise and find the information that matters, enabling more informed lending and investment decisions in a single integrated solution.
We’re honored to be named best credit risk solution provider in the Waters Rankings and are deeply grateful to our clients for their continued partnership and confidence. This recognition affirms Moody’s commitment to innovation and ongoing evolution alongside the market. Combining over a century of credit insights with advanced AI and a robust data foundation, solutions like CreditView with Research Assistant embody that vision and reinforce our long-term investment in shaping the future of credit analysis
Cristina Pieretti, general manager, digital content and innovation, Moody’s
The solution
CreditView with Research Assistant combines a web interface with over 40,000 rated, public and private entities and more than 169,000 additional companies surfaced through Moody’s GenAI-powered Research Assistant, each enriched with financials, earnings call transcripts, news and key developments. The platform streamlines workflows across screening, research, in-depth analysis, peer comparisons, and portfolio monitoring, helping to enable more effective analysis and focus on what’s driving credit risk and change.
Differentiators
Moody’s combines over a century of credit experience with GenAI technology in a single, integrated solution. Users can access insights on over 200,000 entities, including financials, earnings call transcripts, news and sector trends. The offering delivers both depth and speed, surfacing ratings drivers, credit triggers and peer comparisons and user-driven analysis, enabling fast and accurate decisions supported by Moody’s data, analysis and market perspective.
Recent goals
Over the past 12 months, Moody’s introduced reimagined pages on company and sovereign/sub-sovereign-level entities to surface insights, including ownership data and peer-comparisons. A new portfolio monitoring experience was also launched, while interactive scorecards were expanded, and both deal-level and sector-level insights were added to structured finance deals. GenAI technology expanded coverage to over 180,000 entities and added earnings call transcripts, mapped financials, ownership details and portfolio integration.
Product roadmap
Moody’s is creating a unified set of personalized solutions, enabling customers to access all relevant Moody’s content in one place. Leveraging data, analytics, and capabilities, these solutions support a range of use-cases. On the lending and capital markets fronts, the firm will integrate content and insights for over 300,000 companies to support lending and investment decision-making, while on the corporations front, it will deliver intelligence on over 580 million entities to support business development and risk management.
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