Comparison Overview

Merrill Lynch

VS

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd

Merrill Lynch

2 World Financial Center, New York, NY, 10281, US
Last Update: 2025-11-26
Between 800 and 849

Founded in 1914, Merrill is one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world. Merrill financial advisors combine financial knowledge and experience with a deep understanding of their clients’ needs to help their clients pursue the lives they want. With a deep commitment to placing their clients' interests first, Merrill financial advisors draw upon the investment insights of Merrill and the banking insights of Bank of America to unlock opportunities tailored to their clients’ needs in many areas of their financial lives. The strategies our financial advisors offer go beyond investment management to include college savings strategies, retirement planning, eldercare, philanthropy, estate planning services, small business services, and access to cash management & banking strategies. Any opinions, views, statements, estimates or projections ("posts") posted on this web page are solely those of the author(s). Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management is part of Bank of America Corporation's Global Wealth & Investment Management business. Additional Terms, Conditions & Disclaimers found here: https://www.ml.com/social-media/merrill-lynch-on-twitter.html Disclaimer The site is maintained by a third party that has no affiliation with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated ("MLPF&S" or "Merrill"). The recommendations posted to this page by or about Merrill employees, are not endorsed by, and may not represent the views. This material is not intended to constitute a recommendation, offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security financial instrument. or strategy. Always consult with your independent attorney, tax advisor, investment managers, and insurance agent for final recommendations and before changing or implementing any financial, tax, or estate planning strategy. Bank of America Linkedin Community Guidelines: http://about.bankofamerica.com/en-us/social-media/linkedin-community­guidelines.html

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 34,776
Subsidiaries: 1
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
4
Attack type number
2

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd

Junction of Gokhale & Sayani Road, Prabhadevi, Motilal Oswal Tower, Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN, 400025
Last Update: 2025-11-24

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (MOFSL) was founded in 1987 as a small sub-broking unit, with just 2 people running the show. Focus on a customer-first attitude, ethical and transparent business practices, respect for professionalism, research-based value investing, and implementation of cutting-edge technology has enabled us to blossom into a 12,000+ member team. Today we are a well-diversified financial services firm offering a range of financial products and services such as Private Wealth, Retail Broking and Distribution, Institutional Broking, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Commodity Broking, Currency Broking, and Home Finance. We have a diversified client base that includes retail customers (including High Net worth Individuals), mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, financial institutions, and corporate clients. We are headquartered in Mumbai and, as of September 2022, had a network spread over 550 cities and towns comprising 2500+ Business Locations operated by our Business Partners, us, and 5.2 Million+ customers. Research is the solid foundation on which MOFSL advice is based. Almost 10% of revenue is invested in equity research, and we hire and train the best resources to become our advisors. At present we have 25+ research analysts researching over 250 companies across 20 sectors. From a fundamental, technical, and derivatives research perspective, Motilal Oswal’s research reports have received wide coverage in the media. Our consistent efforts towards quality equity research have reflected in an increase in the ratings and rankings across various categories in the AsiaMoney Brokers Poll over the years. We have also been awarded the Best Performing Equity Broker (National) at the CNBC TV18 Financial Advisor Awards for five years in a row & got inducted into the ‘Hall of Fame’ at the 10th Financial Advisory Awards 2019.

NAICS: 52
NAICS Definition: Finance and Insurance
Employees: 14,188
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
0
Attack type number
0

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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Merrill Lynch
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
Merrill Lynch
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Merrill Lynch in 2025.

Incidents vs Financial Services Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd in 2025.

Incident History — Merrill Lynch (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Merrill Lynch cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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Merrill Lynch
Incidents

Date Detected: 2/2025
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Inadvertent Disclosure
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 10/2024
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 4/2024
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Human Error (Email Misconfiguration)
Blog: Blog
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Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd
Incidents

No Incident

FAQ

Merrill Lynch company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

Merrill Lynch company has historically faced a number of disclosed cyber incidents, whereas Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company has not reported any.

In the current year, Merrill Lynch company has reported more cyber incidents than Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company.

Neither Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company nor Merrill Lynch company has reported experiencing a ransomware attack publicly.

Merrill Lynch company has disclosed at least one data breach, while the other Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company nor Merrill Lynch company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

Neither Merrill Lynch company nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company has reported experiencing or disclosing vulnerabilities publicly.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

Merrill Lynch company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company.

Merrill Lynch company employs more people globally than Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd company, reflecting its scale as a Financial Services.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds HIPAA certification.

Neither Merrill Lynch nor Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1, there is a XSRF token leakage via protocol-relative URLs in angular HTTP clients. The vulnerability is a Credential Leak by App Logic that leads to the unauthorized disclosure of the Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) token to an attacker-controlled domain. Angular's HttpClient has a built-in XSRF protection mechanism that works by checking if a request URL starts with a protocol (http:// or https://) to determine if it is cross-origin. If the URL starts with protocol-relative URL (//), it is incorrectly treated as a same-origin request, and the XSRF token is automatically added to the X-XSRF-TOKEN header. This issue has been patched in versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1. A workaround for this issue involves avoiding using protocol-relative URLs (URLs starting with //) in HttpClient requests. All backend communication URLs should be hardcoded as relative paths (starting with a single /) or fully qualified, trusted absolute URLs.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 7.7
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. An Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft deep ASN.1 structures that trigger unbounded recursive parsing. This leads to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via stack exhaustion when parsing untrusted DER inputs. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.2.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 8.7
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. An Integer Overflow vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft ASN.1 structures containing OIDs with oversized arcs. These arcs may be decoded as smaller, trusted OIDs due to 32-bit bitwise truncation, enabling the bypass of downstream OID-based security decisions. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.2.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.3
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. Prior to versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2, working with large buffers in Lua scripts can lead to a stack overflow. Users of Lua rules and output scripts may be affected when working with large buffers. This includes a rule passing a large buffer to a Lua script. This issue has been patched in versions 7.0.13 and 8.0.2. A workaround for this issue involves disabling Lua rules and output scripts, or making sure limits, such as stream.depth.reassembly and HTTP response body limits (response-body-limit), are set to less than half the stack size.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 7.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions from 8.0.0 to before 8.0.2, a NULL dereference can occur when the entropy keyword is used in conjunction with base64_data. This issue has been patched in version 8.0.2. A workaround involves disabling rules that use entropy in conjunction with base64_data.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 7.5
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H