Glossary

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.

An assessment outcome represents the overall result of the assessment's workflow, for example, passed, approved, or failed.

Chapters provide information about an entity on a specific business context such as Firmographics, Ownership, and Screening events.

The confidence score represents the confidence level of an unresolved sanctions match from 0.00 to 1.00. A score closer to 1 signals that it's more likely to be a confirmed match.

An entity is a record of a company or an individual. You can add entities to your portfolio to include them in your assessment and monitoring processes.

A method of signing in to Moody's for Compliance using your organization’s own identity provider, such as Azure Active Directory or Google SSO, instead of a Moody's‑managed login. When federated SSO is enabled, users authenticate through the identity provider after entering their email address on the Moody's for Compliance sign‑in screen.

Institutions are tailored workspaces where features like dashboards, assessments, and risk tools are enabled based on configuration. Demo institutions allow unlimited testing using free data sources, while live production institutions run live checks with real data and incur charges accordingly.

The match score is a number from 0 to 100 that shows how closely the name you searched looks like a name in Grid. The higher the score, the more likely it’s referring to the same person or organization.

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

Refers to information about entities that is sourced from Moody's-owned databases, such as Orbis.

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

Refers to information about companies that is collected and maintained in official registers or databases.

A risk level indicates the overall risk the entity under assessment poses to your company. Each risk level has a range, for example, 0-50. If an assessment's total risk score falls within this range, it is assigned this risk level.

The rules used to evaluate the risk level associated with an entity assessment.

A role defines the permissions a user or team has in Moody's for Compliance. Each role contains permissions that determine what areas of the product a user or team can see and what actions they can take.

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.

A team is a group of users used for task and assessment assignment. When a task or assessment is assigned to a team, any member of that team can view and manage it.

A block in a workflow that ends execution and applies an outcome. When the workflow reaches a terminal block, no further blocks are run.

The people who have access to your Moody's for Compliance account. These are typically the people you work with.

Use Moody's for Compliance's views to view information on your portfolio of entities and to manage your outstanding tasks.

A watchlist is an official or government-maintained list used for screening entities.

A sequential process where Moody's for Compliance queries multiple data sources one after another to find missing information. For example, if the value of a field is unavailable from the primary data source, the secondary source is used to obtain it.

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

An assessment's workflow is made up of blocks that represent required stages in the assessment, such as data collection, screening, or review.