Structured finance

Participants in structured and alternative credit markets face complex challenges, from market trends and investment decisions to transparency, operational rigor, and regulatory compliance.

Moody’s structured finance expertise and award-winning end-to-end technology platforms provide the necessary data, analytical tools, and research insights needed to tackle complex workflows, benchmark performance, and monitor portfolios, as well as conduct cashflows, pricing and risk analysis, and reporting.

We combine state-of-the-art analytics, global coverage, and comprehensive analysis to facilitate growth in these markets.

What we do

We prepare you to succeed in a data and analytics-driven market by enhancing operational and decision-making strategies and providing expertise and real-time market solutions.

01
Enhance and identify decision-making opportunities

Our solutions enable you to analyze any deal or portfolio using data, cash flow analytics, market comparisons, and pricing analytics to arrive at your investment decisions.

02
Improve operational workflows

Our solutions help automate strategic and operational decisions—including administration, reporting, funding, monitoring, compliance, and investment decisions.

03
Gain data and analytical insight

Backed by over 30 years of data across global asset coverage, we are the trusted source for trends, data, and regulatory information for structured and alternative assets.

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Data Management Insight Awards USA

Moody’s wins Best Data Provider to the Buy-Side

Recognized by Data Management Insight Awards USA, Moody’s provides comprehensive, integrated solutions for structured finance needs.




How we help

01 Data, analytics, and modeling

Data, analytics, and modeling

Leveraging 30+ years of structured data, tested cashflows and analytics, our integrated platform provides clients with insights into deals, portfolios, and market performance to improve decision making and transparency.

Our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) SF Portal platform, Application Programming Interface (API), Data Feed, and Microservices solutions can help you:


Mitigate financial risk

Measure, forecast, and manage structured securities risk across loans or portfolios.


Improve performance

Benchmark, monitor, and evaluate deal and collateral performance.


Enhance visibility

Structure transactions through advanced modeling that defines waterfalls and cash flow payments.


Achieve precision

Enhance the accuracy of analyses through timely market securities and tranches analysis.

02 Funding and administrative workflow solutions

Funding and administrative workflow solutions

Our administration and funding suite comprises interconnected solutions that help issuers, asset managers, facility providers, and warehouse lenders execute, fund, and manage loan portfolios. 

Our solutions can help you:


Execute faster

Bring new deals to market or modify existing ones without the need for IT or third-party support—adding efficiency and reducing internal costs.


Improve performance

Quickly address internal and third-party deal performance queries through ad-hoc analysis.


Optimize funding

Optimize the collateral pool associated with both warehouse and asset-based funding, enabling firms to achieve the most efficient cost of capital.


Improve control

Minimize errors and risks by eliminating the use of disparate spreadsheets. Instead, use a centralized, controlled, and auditable environment.


Automate manual processes

Simplify complex reporting requirements introduced by term, warehouse, and private debt issuance.


Enhance compliance management

Deliver real-time hypothetical trading, allocations, and ongoing monitoring across asset portfolios.

03 Research and insights

Research and insights

Having access to trusted and validated data significantly improves decision making. We provide the insights you need to understand the factors influencing market trends and regulations, offering essential financial indicators, performance data, and analytics across asset classes and sectors.

Our platformed solutions deliver comprehensive data, analytics, and insights to enhance your ability to manage investment, business, and market risks.

Leverage in-depth research from Moody's Ratings, along with sector analysis, performance data, and analytical tools for structured finance transactions. Access global content covering deals rated by Moody's Investors Service, as well as additional deals rated by other rating agencies.

Data, analytics, and modeling

Leveraging 30+ years of structured data, tested cashflows and analytics, our integrated platform provides clients with insights into deals, portfolios, and market performance to improve decision making and transparency.

Our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) SF Portal platform, Application Programming Interface (API), Data Feed, and Microservices solutions can help you:


Mitigate financial risk

Measure, forecast, and manage structured securities risk across loans or portfolios.


Improve performance

Benchmark, monitor, and evaluate deal and collateral performance.


Enhance visibility

Structure transactions through advanced modeling that defines waterfalls and cash flow payments.


Achieve precision

Enhance the accuracy of analyses through timely market securities and tranches analysis.

Funding and administrative workflow solutions

Our administration and funding suite comprises interconnected solutions that help issuers, asset managers, facility providers, and warehouse lenders execute, fund, and manage loan portfolios. 

Our solutions can help you:


Execute faster

Bring new deals to market or modify existing ones without the need for IT or third-party support—adding efficiency and reducing internal costs.


Improve performance

Quickly address internal and third-party deal performance queries through ad-hoc analysis.


Optimize funding

Optimize the collateral pool associated with both warehouse and asset-based funding, enabling firms to achieve the most efficient cost of capital.


Improve control

Minimize errors and risks by eliminating the use of disparate spreadsheets. Instead, use a centralized, controlled, and auditable environment.


Automate manual processes

Simplify complex reporting requirements introduced by term, warehouse, and private debt issuance.


Enhance compliance management

Deliver real-time hypothetical trading, allocations, and ongoing monitoring across asset portfolios.

Research and insights

Having access to trusted and validated data significantly improves decision making. We provide the insights you need to understand the factors influencing market trends and regulations, offering essential financial indicators, performance data, and analytics across asset classes and sectors.

Our platformed solutions deliver comprehensive data, analytics, and insights to enhance your ability to manage investment, business, and market risks.

Leverage in-depth research from Moody's Ratings, along with sector analysis, performance data, and analytical tools for structured finance transactions. Access global content covering deals rated by Moody's Investors Service, as well as additional deals rated by other rating agencies.

Testimonial

“We were using Excel spreadsheets before, with a lot of manual entry and controls such as segregation of duty. With ABS Suite we have set up different permissions internally on a team-by-team basis and are pleased with how well this setup is working for the bank.”

- Maddalena Gowing
Manager, Securitization and Covered Bonds, Suncorp Bank

Who we help

01 Banking

Banking

Our structured finance solutions—including asset, market, deal, pricing, and trading data—support banks by helping them analyze funding execution, structuring transactions, capital structures, stress testing, risk management, and underlying loans.

Our tools reduce operational and funding challenges for banks across assets, which allows for more normalized data to facilitate monitoring, analysis, compliance, and reporting on key credit exposures.

02 Buy-side

Buy-side

Our advanced solutions provide extensive coverage and integrated capabilities across structured markets, including performance data, comparative analytics, cashflows, portfolio analysis, and insights into loan, deal, and asset-level information.

03 Corporations

Corporations

Our industry-leading solutions support corporations with an end-to-end structured credit administration, accounting, funding, and analytics platform.

Our robust platform helps empower corporations to increase operational efficiency, mitigate risk, and automate processes associated with structured credit transactions.

04 Insurance

Insurance

Our credit, risk, and regulatory assessment tools enable insurers to quickly access and evaluate structured credits. This helps them to analyze, monitor, and assess loan and portfolio assets.

Our platforms deliver a suite of solutions, including critical research and performance insights across asset classes.

Banking

Our structured finance solutions—including asset, market, deal, pricing, and trading data—support banks by helping them analyze funding execution, structuring transactions, capital structures, stress testing, risk management, and underlying loans.

Our tools reduce operational and funding challenges for banks across assets, which allows for more normalized data to facilitate monitoring, analysis, compliance, and reporting on key credit exposures.

Buy-side

Our advanced solutions provide extensive coverage and integrated capabilities across structured markets, including performance data, comparative analytics, cashflows, portfolio analysis, and insights into loan, deal, and asset-level information.

Corporations

Our industry-leading solutions support corporations with an end-to-end structured credit administration, accounting, funding, and analytics platform.

Our robust platform helps empower corporations to increase operational efficiency, mitigate risk, and automate processes associated with structured credit transactions.

Insurance

Our credit, risk, and regulatory assessment tools enable insurers to quickly access and evaluate structured credits. This helps them to analyze, monitor, and assess loan and portfolio assets.

Our platforms deliver a suite of solutions, including critical research and performance insights across asset classes.


Case studies

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T-Mobile notes efficiency gain with ABS Suite
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Suncorp finds edge with ABS Suite’s data management
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CLO Manager Module significantly improved overall operational efficiency for a large US and London based investment firm

News and views

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Auto ABS – US: Sector Update – Q3 2024: Strong loan issuance, with modest weakening in performance

An update of issuance and performance trends in the US auto ABS sector.

  • Structured finance
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As regulators bolster copyright protections amid widening artificial intelligence use in the music industry, music royalty ABS issuers and other copyright holders will benefit from the protections.

  • Structured finance
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WeWork CMBS exposure update

Given WeWork’s recent financial challenges, we revisited the company’s exposure to current and prior CMBS deals.

  • Structured finance
  • Corporations
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Analysis of Tranche Maturity calculation methods for the Securitization External Rating Based Approach (SEC-ERBA)

The European Banking Authority (EBA) Guidelines detail the appropriate methods of determination of the regulatory capital pertaining to securitization outlined in the Basel III regulation.

  • Structured finance
  • Banking
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Quarterly European RMBS/ABS analysis – Q1 2023

This paper provides an overview of the average CPR and CDR in Europe on a quarterly basis for the past year for various ABS and RMBS asset types across seven European countries.

  • Structured finance
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Quarterly EURO CLO loan exposure analysis – April 2023

This paper provides an overview of top current industry, country, and issuer exposures in European CLOs as of April 2023.

  • Structured finance
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Latest CMBS performance and implications for SASBs

In this write up, our CMBS experts discuss the latest trends and performance in the commercial real estate market with a focus on changes in single asset single borrower (SASB) transaction performance.

  • Structured finance
  • Commercial properties
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Delinquencies continue to transition to forbearance, but CMBS 2.0 liquidations are up!

In this report, our CMBS experts discuss how delinquencies continue to transition to forbearance.  However, CMBS 2.0 liquidations have also been increasing.

  • Structured finance
  • Commecial properties

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