Overview: Moody’s Corporation is a publicly-traded company headquartered in New York. Its subsidiaries are:
- Moody’s Investors Service
- Moody’s KMV (credit analysis tools)
- Moody’s Economy.com (economic research and data)
- Moody’s Wall Street Analytics (structured finance software and analysis)
The main lines of business in the principal subsidiary, Moody’s Investors Service, are:
- Credit Ratings
- Investment Research
- Risk Analysis
- Financial Data and Information
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Size: Moody’s reports these figures as of June, 2008:
- Employees = 3,500
- Analysts = 1,000
- Offices in 29 countries
- Offices in the U.S. = 6
- Tracks debt of over 100 nations
- Tracks debt of over 12,000 corporate issuers
- Tracks debt of over 29,000 public finance issuers
- Tracks over 96,000 structured finance obligations
Positives: Moody’s focuses solely on rating debt issues, with a particular expertise in municipal bonds. People interested in the latter field might find Moody’s to be their employer of choice. Moody’s has been in the credit rating business since 1909.