Orbis - BvD is now Moody's (original) (raw)
Orbis is the most powerful comparable data resource on private companies—and it covers listed companies too.
We go further than just providing information, we carefully capture a wide variety of data, then we treat, append, and standardize it to make it richer, more powerful, and easier to integrate.
Formerly a Bureau van Dijk (BvD) flagship solution, Orbis can help you simplify the decision-making process with extensive data, timely insights and cutting-edge tools aimed at helping you navigate an era of exponential risk and grow your business.
What we do
Orbis can help you find, analyze, and compare companies across the globe for better decision making and increased efficiency.
Powerful comparable data
With information on more than 580 million companies across the globe, Orbis captures and blends data from more than 170 different sources and treats it so it's standardized and comparable.
Extensive corporate ownership structures
Our extensive database serves as the go-to resource for corporate and beneficial ownership structures. Our corporate trees help you gain a robust view of the ownership of your potential and existing business partners and third-party associates.
A holistic view
Our standardized and curated data covering firmographic, financial details, hierarchies and ownership, foreign investments, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, among others, can provide companies with a better understanding of emerging risks and develop a competitive advantage.
Country-specific offers
For those organizations who need a more specialized view of entities within certain European countries, including country-specific financial data or formats, we offer a number of country-level databases, including AIDA, FAME, DIANE, MARKUS, ASTREE, and more.
Extensive data
580+ million entities
With more than 580 million entities and companies within Orbis, Moody's now delivers even more extensive data for our customers. More data means more actionable insights to manage risk, act decisively and advance their business.
- 01 Sales and Marketing
- 02 Master data management
- 03 Corporate finance
- 04 Compliance and financial crime
- 05 Supplier risk
- 06 Credit risk
- 07 Cyber risk
- 08 Tax and transfer pricing
01 Sales and Marketing
Sales and Marketing
Use the Orbis data to engage in strategic business development and customer relationship management (CRM) enrichment specifically tailored for the banking sector. Orbis can help banks resolve existing data issues by highlighting duplicate records and companies. It can also assist in harmonizing different datasets across your business, adding crucial data like activity codes, company size, company growth, corporate group details, and financial strength metrics to empower your salespeople to sell more effectively.
With WalletSizing® from Vallstein, available exclusively for banks within Orbis, you can unlock further revenue potential by identifying detailed insights into the banking products and services utilized by existing and prospective customers across over 90 million companies globally. This unique capability provides banks with a competitive edge by enabling more personalized and efficient service offerings, helping differentiate in a crowded market.
02 Master data management
Master data management
Orbis’ global company reference data, encompassing firmographics, company size metrics, and corporate hierarchies, along with our unique proprietary data types, caters to an enterprise's functional and analytical requirements.
With industry-leading coverage of over 580 million entities, our company reference data promotes enterprise-wide interoperability, and is available via a wide range of data integration options and applications to ensure seamless delivery to virtually any third-party or in-house data management system.
03 Corporate finance
Corporate finance
Orbis lets you analyze individual companies in detail and compare companies against each other. You can build specific searches to help you find potential target companies.
You also get exceptional coverage of deals and rumors with our M&A database, Orbis M&A, which is directly integrated into the Orbis database.
04 Compliance and financial crime
Compliance and financial crime
Moody’s Orbis database gives you access to information on hundreds of millions of private companies across the world. Use Orbis in your Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Client Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence processes.
Automate company checks for swift onboarding, comprehensive due diligence, and perpetual risk monitoring. And integrate Orbis’ award-winning data into Moody’s full suite of anti-financial crime solutions to achieve compliance, understand risk, and make decisions with confidence about who you work with.
05 Supplier risk
Supplier risk
We capture and treat private company information for better decision making and increased efficiency. We bring your supplier data ‘to life’ by enriching it with our content, and presenting it in simple dashboards, so you can interpret it quickly and work more efficiently.
06 Credit risk
Credit risk
Orbis helps you do fast company financial checks and in-depth analyses. Use its unique financial strength data and comparable, detailed financial reports to do credit assessments across multiple countries. And it can also be integrated with your own risk systems.
07 Cyber risk
Cyber risk
Use Cyber Risk Ratings by Bitsight in Orbis to understand the level of cybersecurity risk posed by your key third parties. With ratings on over 6 million entities within Orbis, Bitsight's cybersecurity ratings provide a concise summary of an organization’s cybersecurity performance, with security incident history—covering over seven years.
By using these analytics to understand and mitigate the cybersecurity risk posed by third parties, you can help protect your organization from significant financial, legal, operational, and reputational consequences.
08 Tax and transfer pricing
Tax and transfer pricing
Orbis combines company data with transfer pricing (TP) functionality, so you can plan, set policies, and manage risk. You can also document your compliance procedures to help with the full TP analysis process.
Our feasibility and savings analyses mean you can fine-tune your policies, create robust audit-defense analysis, and prepare TP documentation.
We’ve also created a full document management system to help with base erosion and profit shifting BEPS and country-by-country (CbC) reporting requirements.
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The power of Orbis
Powerful functionality and data visualization tools
Access to multiple Moody's proprietary data types
100s of search criteria so you can find companies with very precise profiles
Ownership explorer
Powerful flexible data change and news alerts for monitoring
Heat maps and graphs
Pivot analyses
Add-ins populate Microsoft Office templates with live data from Orbis
Flexible report ordering
Learning zone and training videos
News and views
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