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Moody's Analytics BankFocus is the definitive solution for analyzing banks. It's a new approach to global banking data, combining renowned content from Bureau van Dijk and Moody's Investors Service, with expertise from Moody's Analytics. 

The result is a comprehensive banking database that you can use to identify, analyze and monitor banks and other financial institutions.

BankFocus offers you a range of access and analysis options including a contemporary interface and integrated workflow solutions.

Financial statements for more banks than any other solution

With detailed financials for over 44,000 banks, BankFocus offers financial statements for more banks than any other solution.

 

 

More than banks

You also have the option to include insurance companies and non-bank financial institutions in your BankFocus subscription.

Insurance companies include:

• life
• non-life
• composite
• health

Non-bank financial institutions:

Review financial data for non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), including securities firms, finance companies, leasing companies and asset managers. And we also deliver information for regulatory checks.

 

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Do like-for-like analysis on more banks than any other solution

BankFocus offers detailed, standardized reports and ratios for over 44,000 banks across the globe. For these banks, you can access:

• standardized data for detailed like-for-like analysis
• 'as reported' data
• links to source filings, to see how data points are derived

A range of formats

Summary

• The global standard format - 57 line items and 38 key ratios

Extended

• The global detailed format - over 650 line items - our flagship report for comparing banks globally

National

• More than 60 “as published” national formats, extending to over 3,000 line items
• IFRS/GAAP and Islamic bank templates

BankFocus is supported by a highly knowledgeable bank analysis team, so its templates are regularly updated to reflect the latest accounting and regulatory disclosures, including:

• Basel III CET1
• Transitional vs fully loaded regulatory capital ratios
• Total loss absorbing capacity
• Minimum requirement for own funds and eligible capital
• Net stable funding
• Holdco double leverage
• Market risk, e.g. stress VaR, interest rate risk, FX risk
• Derivative netting and collateral

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Key benefits

• Get a comprehensive, portfolio-level view of a bank’s group exposure
• Robust data for due diligence, AML research and compliance
• Complementary information on banks including news, unique identifiers and original filings
• Use the data from BankFocus to add clarity, depth and breadth to your work and increase efficiency by screening for banks or using the custom report builder
• Market indicators and credit ratings including Credit Default Swap (CDS) information, market data and bank ratings from Moody's Investors Service - downloadable, Standard & Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Morningstar

A combination of content and expertise

BankFocus is built from a legacy of expertise in bank data. Bureau van Dijk has been delivering information on banks since 1990.

BankFocus includes Moody’s Investors Service ‘as reported’ bank financials for rated banks.

Expertise from Moody's Analytics:

• A new strategic focus to deliver the optimal solution for researching and analyzing banks
• New operational processes, including extensive sourcing and quality controls

Quality is our priority

Providing our customers with the best quality data is our most important objective.

We have hundreds of validation controls for the data on BankFocus. A quality management team also checks the data on an entity-by-entity basis. The templates, as well as all sourced data, are regularly reviewed and updated with the latest regulatory requirements.

 

Customer success teams

Our dedicated team is in place to help you get the most out of BankFocus.

When you first join us, our new customer integration team will make sure you have all the necessary templates and
custom variables set up.

And, once on board, our engagement team will continue to help you develop your use of BankFocus and its extensive analytical options.

A channel agnostic solution: integrate into your workflow or use our contemporary interface and tools

You can choose how you access and analyze the data, whether that’s using our interface, one of our business tools or via a bespoke data feed directly into your own systems.

Our new state-of-the-art interface with data visualization tools

BankFocus’ new interface offers a contemporary environment for searching and analysis. Easy-to-use, it provides a range of powerful options for data analysis and visualization. Click-throughs show the derivation and origin of financial items. And you can see the data in Excel-friendly worksheets, which expand directly into tabbed worksheets.

Connect to a range of workflow tools

 

New contemporary add-ins

BankFocus includes enhanced, contemporary add-ins, which allows you to do dynamic analysis in Excel and PowerPoint.

Using the add-ins, you can seamlessly populate templates using the data from BankFocus. View the data instantly using
your scoring models, analysis and presentation templates. You can even search for companies within Excel.

And, when BankFocus is updated, your templates automatically update too.

 

 

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A sophisticated analysis framework, ready for you to customize

Moody’s Analytics enterprise risk solutions, including The Fact Framework, offer flexible and fully configurable frameworks that can be completely integrated into your existing workflow. It can also incorporate Spreading and Financial Analysis, Risk Rating, Loan Origination and Approval Workflow processes. Limit and Exposure Management and Covenant Monitoring are available too.

 

 

Bespoke data feeds

Get a bespoke data feed delivered via an API or a custom flat file to integrate BankFocus data into your existing models, credit rating and workflow tools.