NEW YORK-- Moody's Corporation (NYSE:MCO) today announced the launch of Moody’s Research Assistant, a first-of-its-kind search and analytical tool powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Leveraging Moody’s extensive proprietary content and the latest large language models (LLMs), the product helps customers generate new insights from the breadth and depth of Moody’s credit research, data, and analytics.

As the first GenAI-powered research tool commercially available for financial market participants, Moody’s Research Assistant synthesizes vast amounts of information so users can assess lending or investment opportunities, monitor developments, compare entities, and enhance analytical workflows rapidly and at scale. Grounded in Moody’s extensive proprietary content in combination with the latest GenAI technology, Moody’s Research Assistant allows users to generate more holistic risk insights faster.

“For financial market participants, successfully navigating today’s complex risk landscape requires resource-intensive analysis of a vast array of research and data across a number of risk domains,” said Cristina Pieretti, General Manager of Digital Insights for Moody’s Analytics. “With Moody’s Research Assistant, analysis that used to take hours can now be accomplished in minutes, freeing up more time for strategic decision-making.”

Users who participated in a pilot of Moody’s Research Assistant reported gains in productivity and effectiveness. Based on observed metrics during the pilot period, users could save up to 80% of the time they spend on data collection and up to 50% of the time they spend on analysis by adding Moody's Research Assistant. Overall, results suggest that Moody’s Research Assistant could save users up to 27% of their time spent performing the typical tasks and functions of a financial analyst.

Moody’s Research Assistant is available as an add-on to CreditView, Moody’s flagship ratings and research solution. Using Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service and powered by advanced language processing technology, Moody’s Research Assistant complements CreditView’s existing information retrieval system, effectively identifying relevant entities, industries, and geographical regions within textual content.

Moody’s Research Assistant covers the latest rating actions, credit opinions, and research reports from Moody’s Investors Service to provide real-time answers for users. Ultimately, Moody’s Research Assistant will expand to leverage more of Moody’s data and content across risk domains including credit, climate, cyber, compliance, supply chain, and more.

The launch of Moody’s Research Assistant is the latest chapter in Moody’s integration of AI into its products, solutions, and processes that help decision makers decode risk and unlock opportunities. Moody’s ongoing approach to innovation is grounded in three main principles - evolving with urgency, empowering employees, and prioritizing customer impact.