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We are a global analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services.
We are India's leading ratings agency. We are also the foremost provider of high-end research to the world's largest banks and leading corporations. With sustainable competitive advantage arising from our strong brand, unmatched credibility, market leadership across businesses, and large customer base, we deliver analysis, opinions, and solutions that make markets function better.
Our defining trait is our ability to convert data and information into expert judgements and forecasts across a wide range of domains, with deep expertise and complete objectivity.
At the core of our credibility, built up assiduously over the years, are our values: Integrity, Independence, Analytical Rigour, Commitment and Innovation.
Our majority shareholder is Standard and Poor's. Standard & Poor's, a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings.
We address a rich and globally-diversified client base. Within India our customers range from small enterprises to the largest corporations and financial institutions; outside India our customers include the world's largest banks and leading corporations. We also work with governments and policy-makers in India and other emerging markets in the infrastructure domain.
We empower our customers, and the markets at large, with independent analysis, benchmarks and tools. These help lenders and borrowers, issuers and investors, regulators, and market intermediaries make better-informed investment and business decisions. Our offerings allow markets and market participants to become more transparent and efficient - by mitigating and managing risk, taking pricing decisions, generating more revenue, reducing time to market and enhancing returns. By helping shape public policy on infrastructure in emerging markets, we catalyse economic growth and development in these countries.
We carefully nurture a fungible talent pool that can rotate seamlessly across businesses, providing the domain expertise and cultural cement that holds our many businesses together. We are able to provide business leadership opportunities to an increasing number of our talented employees because of our rapidly-growing businesses, range of services, and geographical footprint. Our people remain the factor that makes the totality of the CRISIL group far more valuable than the sum of its parts.
CRISIL is the largest credit rating agency in India. CRISIL pioneered ratings in India more than 20 years ago, and is today the undisputed business leader, with the largest number of rated entities and rating products: CRISIL's rating experience covers more than 46,496 entities, including 24,850 small and medium enterprises (SMEs). As on December 31, 2011, we had more than 16644 ratings (including over 8000 SMEs) outstanding.
CRISIL Global Research & Analytics (GR&A) is the largest and top-ranked provider of high end research and analytics services to the world's leading commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, corporations, consulting firms, private equity players and asset management firms. CRISIL GR&A operates from research centers in Argentina, China, India and Poland, providing research support across several time zones and in multiple languages to global organizations.
The CRISIL GR&A team has deep expertise in the areas of equity research, fixed income research (covering global economies, 150 global sectors and over 3000 global companies), valuations, pricing complex derivatives, structured finance, risk management, actuarial analysis and business intelligence. This expertise enables our clients enhance revenues, accelerate time to market, take pricing decisions and improve operational efficiencies.
Being part of the CRISIL platform enables CRISIL GR&A to attract and retain top quality talent. CRISIL GR&A has over 2,000 employees, 75% of whom hold advanced degrees in finance, accounting and management. It has the largest teams of equity research analysts and derivative analysts outside of investment banks and the largest team of fixed income/credit analysts outside of banks/rating agencies.
CRISIL GR&A has served more than 500 firms over the last decade. Our clients include:
- 12 of the top 15 global investment banks
- 2 of the top 10 global consulting groups
- 3 of the top 10 global Asset Management Companies
- 3 of the top 15 global insurance companies
- Several fortune 500 companies
CRISIL GR&A includes Irevna and Pipal Research, firms which were acquired by CRISIL. For more information, please visit www.irevna.com and www.pipalresearch.com.
CRISIL Research is India's largest independent research house. Through constant innovation, and comprehensive research offerings covering economy, industry, companies CRISIL Research meets the requirements of more than 750 Indian and global clients. Apart from off the shelf research reports, CRISIL also provides incisive, customised research that allows clients to take informed business and investment decisions.
Comprehensive research coverage on over 65 industries and 150 corporates makes CRISIL a preferred service provider to -
- 90% of India's commercial banks
- 4 of the world's largest consulting firms
- All the leading brokers, investment banks and private equity players
CRISIL is an eminent player in the capital markets space with detailed perspective covering both debt and equity markets. CRISIL's capital market offerings can be categorised under equity research, initial public offer grading, mutual fund services, and fixed income services. Additionally, CRISIL provides customised research solutions as well.
CRISIL Equities
Offerings under CRISIL Equities are classified as - independent equity research (globally a unique concept) and initial public offer (IPO) grading. CRISIL equities also provide equity outsourcing and customised research for information memoranda and offer documents that are prepared by companies as part of their fund-raising initiatives.
Mutual Fund Services
CRISIL FundServices (CFS) is India's leading provider of rankings, desktop and valuation tools, indices and market benchmarks and customised investment research. Its Mutual Fund Rankings have been the industry standard for mutual fund evaluation in India for more than a decade.
CFS has executed various policy level prestigious assignments -
- Assisted Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in selection of fund managers to manage the EPFO's funds and provide better returns to its members.
- Assisted Provident Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) in framing regulations under the PFRDA act.
CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory* provides practical and innovative solutions to governments, donor funded agencies and leading organizations in over 20 emerging economies across the world to:
- Transform efficiency of public institutions and sector
- Design and strengthen reform programmes to catalyse private sector participation
- Improve infrastructure service delivery
Some of the key assignments executed :
- CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory strategized the takeout finance scheme - a method of making long term debt financing available to large infrastructure projects for India Infrastructure Company Ltd (IIFCL).
- CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory's Energy Practice has designed and implemented first of its kind novel Electricity Distribution Franchisee Contract in Maharashtra.
* Effective April 01, 2007, CRISIL transferred its advisory and risk consulting business into a wholly owned subsidiary, CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Ltd (CRIS).
CRISIL Risk Solutions* (CRS) provides comprehensive risk management services to banks, financial institutions, and corporates across all areas of risk including: credit, market and operational. In addition to providing innovative software products, it also extends consultancy services and analytical insights, which are focused on helping customers become Basel II-compliant.
Ranked as the No. 1 Risk Solution provider in the last Indian Banks' Association (IBA) Finsight media survey, CRISIL Risk Solutions has delivered risk solutions to about 50 financial institutions in India and abroad and has largest user base of more than 100000 users. CRS's flagship product RAM is the largest deployed Internal risk rating solution in India.
* Effective April 1, 2007, CRISIL transferred its advisory and risk consulting business into a wholly owned subsidiary, CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Ltd (CRIS). |