Rating Advisors play a crucial role in helping their clients navigate the ratings process. Moody’s CreditView can help with comprehensive analysis and tools designed to understand the drivers of credit ratings.

Moody’s CreditView specializes in providing information to support fundamental credit analysis needs and is heavily relied on by a range of capital market professionals, including Rating Advisors. Rating Advisors often play an integral role in helping their clients – typically borrowers looking to issue debt – manage the complexities of credit risk. To do this successfully, having a detailed understanding of the drivers of credit ratings is crucial. 

Moody’s CreditView can help with:

• Generating bespoke company, peer, or sector research in preparation for a client pitch
• Advising the client on an indicative rating range for the new issue, using different scenarios
• Helping the client prepare to share relevant and credit-specific information with Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs)
• Staying on top of sector developments that may impact the credit quality of the client

In addition to direct access to Moody’s leading analysts, there are a range of content sets and analytical tools available through CreditView that can support Rating Advisors.

Sector-specific interactive Rating Methodology scorecards

With over 60 unique interactive Rating Methodologies for all key sectors, our users can quickly create scorecard-generated outputs using different variables for both qualitative and quantitative factors. These sector-specific interactive Rating Methodology scorecards enable Rating Advisors to model different scenarios, an integral step when advising clients on the potential rating range for new issues, allowing for transparency into the factors that will drive their credit rating.

Generate bespoke research and unique insights, within seconds

Moody’s CreditView provides access to a vast and comprehensive array of data, helping Rating Advisors stay on top of developments that could impact their clients' credit quality. This continuous access to sector insights and market trends ensures that advisors can proactively adjust their strategies and advice based on the latest developments and changes in the market.

In addition, when preparing for client pitches, Rating Advisors can leverage Moody’s Research Assistant to quickly generate tailored company, peer, or sector research. This feature allows them to craft customized narratives and position their clients effectively by producing comparable entity data within seconds, enhancing the preparation process for meetings with Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs).

Detailed financials with adjustment details including peers for comparisons

Moody’s CreditView offers all financials spread to a global chart of accounts, which means all entities are comparable. This includes adjusted financials by Moody’s Ratings analysts following standard and non-standard adjustments to better reflect the true picture of an entity’s debt profile. These adjustment details are critical for Rating Advisors as they provide insights into the types of adjustments that their client’s financials may likely get, especially when also comparing with peers that are also defined by Moody’s Ratings analysts.

This information also enables Rating Advisors to better prepare their clients to present relevant, credit-specific information to CRAs. Understanding the adjustments made by Moody’s analysts allows advisors to anticipate how their clients’ financials may be interpreted in the rating process and to compare these adjustments against peers.

Expanded coverage beyond rated for increased comparability

Moody’s CreditView now includes over 16,000 corporate entities, including around 12,000 public and private entities that do not have an active public rating by Moody’s Ratings. As these financials are spread to the same global chart of accounts, Rating Advisors can now more easily and efficiently compare their clients with a broader set of peers. The expanded dataset ensures advisors can position their clients even against entities that aren’t currently rated.

Interesting in learning more about CreditView and the other tools and solutions we have on offer?  Find out how our team can help.