About CRISIL

CRISIL Limited, an analytical company, together with its subsidiaries, provides ratings, data, research, and analytics and solutions in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Poland, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. Segments The company operates through three segments: Ratings, Research, and Advisory. CRISIL Ratings The Ratings services segment include credit ratings for corporates, banks, bank loans, and small and medium enterprises; credit analysis services; grading services; and analytical services. The company has rated more than 33,000 large and mid-scale corporates and financial institutions. Its capabilities span the entire range of debt instruments. For investors and lenders, the company supplements internal evaluation processes and benchmark credit quality across investment options. The company’s ratings are used in the computation of capital adequacy in the banking sector. The company has graded and assessed over 150,000 MSMEs in India. Through its Global Analytical Centre (GAC), the company provides analytical, research and data services to S&P Global Inc. globally. GAC partners with S&P Global Ratings Services (SPGRS) on data analytics, research and analysis, modelling assignments, risk and regulatory services, sales and marketing support, tech enabled solutions and improving workflow efficiencies. GAC operates as a centralised research and analytics hub for SPGRS teams spread across the U.S., EMEA and APAC regions. CRISIL Global Research & Analytics The Research segment provides research and analytical services, industry reports, customized research assignments, subscription to data services, independent equity research, initial public offering grading, and training services. The company provides high-end research and risk solutions, with a client base of more than 75 global banks, 55+ buy-side firms, insurance companies, corporations, consulting firms, private equity and asset management firms. The company provides equity and fixed-income research support to banks and foremost provider of end-to-end risk management, analytics and process re-engineering services to trading, risk and finance management functions at the financial institutions. The company operates from eight research centres across Argentina, China, India and Poland, working with clients across time zones and languages. The company provides equity and fixed-income research support to banks and foremost provider of end-to-end risk management, analytics and process re-engineering services to trading, risk and finance management functions at the financial institutions. The company operates from five global locations, providing objective research and high-end analytics to support strategic and tactical decision-making across four areas: Competitor Analytics, Financial Resources Analytics, Client Analytics, and Country Analytics. CRISIL Coalition The company operates as a benchmarking analytics provider to more than 25 corporate and investment banks across the global financial services industry. It operates from five global locations, providing objective research and high-end analytics to support strategic and tactical decision-making across four areas: Competitor Analytics, Financial Resources Analytics, Client Analytics, and Country Analytics. Coalition’s client analytics offering includes franchise revenue pools, wallet, and share of wallet for institution and corporate clients. It also includes ranking and gap for institutional clients. CRISIL Research The company provides economy and industry research, with coverage across 77 sectors. The company works with nearly 1,200 Indian and global clients, including 90% of India’s banking industry by asset base, 15 of the 25 Indian companies by market capitalisation, all Indian mutual fund and life insurance companies, and four of the consulting firms. The company provides valuation of fixed-income securities to mutual funds, insurance, alternate investment funds (AIFs), corporate and banking industries, valuing over $1.88 trillion of Indian debt securities. The company maintains over 96 standard indices in India and 13 in Sri Lanka, as well as 100+ customised indices. The company provides due diligence and ranking services to mutual funds and insurers. Its access to proprietary and public data across the economy, industry, company and capital markets gives it an edge in developing analytics, which can be leveraged to provide deep and actionable insights to customers. CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory The Advisory segment offers advisory services; and risk management tools, analytics, and solutions to financial institutions, banks, and corporates. The company offers advisor to governments and regulators, multilateral agencies and investors. The company offers a wide array of services across the infrastructure development cycle. CRISIL Business Intelligence & Risk Solutions (BIRS) BIRS is positioned to be a global risk and analytics solution provider to help banks and financial institutions, offering insights to enable business performance. The company’s proprietary technology platform, combined with deep business domain knowledge, helps it deliver best-inclass solutions in all key functional areas, including risk management, sales and marketing, financial control and reporting, regulatory compliance and governance. History The company was founded in 1987. It was formerly known as The Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited and changed its name to CRISIL Limited in 2003.