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About entities

Abstract

Learn what entities are in Moody's for Compliance and how they support assessment and monitoring workflows in your portfolio.

Entities are core components in Moody's for Compliance that are used to represent companies and individuals.

You can add entities to your portfolio to include them in your assessment and monitoring processes.

Each entity contains key identifying information that varies depending on the entity type:

  • Companies: include incorporation date and other registration details.

  • Individuals: include date of birth and personal identifiers.

Entities added to your portfolio can be evaluated through assessments. Your configuration determines the assessments you can perform on an entity and the specified workflow for each assessment.

During an assessment, tasks are generated when a workflow step can't be automated and needs human intervention, for example, supplying missing data or resolving screening matches.

An entity can undergo multiple assessments at the same time, each following its own workflow.

Diagram showing an entity containing two assessments, each containing a separate workflow.

Diagram showing the relationship between an entity, its assessments, and the assessment workflows.

The Portfolio view on the Views page lists the entities you have added to your organization's portfolio.

You can expand your portfolio by searching for new entities in the header bar search field or by manually adding a new entity record.

Additional information 

The collection of entities going through your organization's assessment and monitoring processes.

The process of evaluating an entity in your portfolio using a specified workflow. An assessment determines whether the entity meets your defined criteria and may involve multiple steps. An entity can be going through multiple assessments at the same time.

The ongoing process of tracking entities in your portfolio for changes that may require them to be reassessed.

The step-by-step process that an entity follows during an assessment, for example, evaluating risk and screening for sanctions.

A manual action generated when a workflow step can't be automated and requires human intervention. For example, supplying missing data or resolving screening matches.