Pradip Shah is Managing Director

Forges a strategic alliance with Standard & Poor's Ratings Group.

Sets up IISL, a Joint Venture between CRISIL and National Stock Exchange for undertaking index business and related activities. The new Company enters into a Consultancy and Licence Agreement with Standard & Poors'

Acquires the business of Information Products and Research Services (India) Pvt. Ltd. alongwith its brand INFAC

Secures the Certificate of Registration under SEBI (Credit Rating Agencies) Regulations, 1999

Launches CRISIL MarketWire, a real-time financial news service

Launches Mutual Fund Composite Performance Rankings (CRISIL CPRs), Fund Risk Analytics Model and CRISIL Mutual Funds Portfolio Tracker

Change of name of the company from "The Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited" to "CRISIL Limited"

Rates the first CDO transaction of working capital facilities in the Asia Pacific

Makes an equity investment in the Caribbean Information & Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS), (click here for more details) the first regional rating agency in the world, covering 19 countries.

Acquires Gas Strategies Group Limited (earlier known as EconoMatters Limited), a London-based company engaged in gas consulting, information and training/conferences

AMFI mandates CRISIL to provide daily fund indices as benchmarking standards for the mutual fund industry

S&P acquires 3,120,948 equity shares of CRISIL from CRISIL shareholders through an Open Offer taking S&P holding in CRISIL to 58.46%

CRISIL Board approves proposal to acquire Irevna group of companies

CRISIL constitutes a new team to achieve greater integration with Standard & Poor's (S&P) in brand franchise, market development and sales efforts.

Irevna ranked the top investment research outsourcing firm by buy-side firms according to a recent survey by the Brown-Wilson Group; sets up second delivery centre in Buenos Aires

Inter-company agreements signed between CRISIL and Standard & Poor's - CRISIL now known as a Standard & Poor's Company

CRISIL transfers its advisory business (CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory and CRISIL Investment & Risk Management Services) into a 100% subsidiary CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited.

CRISIL's subsidiaries CRISIL Research & Information Services Limited (CRIS), Global Data Services of India Limited, CRISIL Properties Limited and Irevna Research Services Limited merged into CRISIL Limited (CRISIL).

Ms. Roopa Kudva takes over as Managing Director & CEO of CRISIL following Mr. R. Ravimohan's appointment as Managing Director & Region Head of Standard & Poor's South Asia

CRISIL launches its formal sustainable development programme for Corporate Social Responsibility

Launches the CRISIL Complexity Levels Service - an initiative aimed at strengthening Indian capital markets through greater transparenct for investors

Assigned over 7400 new ratings in 2009 including 2268 Bank Loan Ratings (BLRs), and 5178 Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Ratings

Launched a first-of-its-kind publication, India's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions, profiling the leading microfinance institutions in India