Why Moody's is betting on machine learning

You might know Moody's Corporation for its credit rating agency, Moody's Investors Service, trusted by bond investors for opinions on credit risk. But the company, founded way back in 1909, grew ever-larger, and in 2007, Moody's Analytics was established to focus on non-rating activities – including economic research, consulting services and software development. Today, the employees of Moody's Analytics include a large number of machine learning and deep learning experts. To find out more about the business, we quizzed one such expert, Ashit Talukder, head of machine learning at Moody's Analytics, who previously spent 12 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and served as the CTO of the US Department of Labor. Q: Most people know Moody's as a credit rating agency.