New Products
- Enhanced Analysis Initiative
- Moody’s opinions on (1) quality of financial reporting, (2) off balance-sheet financings and risk transference and (3) corporate governance.
- Coverage of ~ 400 U.S. companies at the end of 2004; goal of ~550 by the end of 2005.
- Financial goal: ~ $50 million revenue by 2007.
- Data and analytics products
- Many of the same data and analytic tools used by the Moody’s analysts.
- Data services provide users a range of information in standardized format, including credit histories on an extensive number of issuers and performance of collateral underlying a range of structured finance transactions.
- Analytic tools help users model transactions, monitor credit performance and compare to benchmarks, and compare Moody’s ratings with other measures of credit risk.