CRISIL is India's leading rating agency, and is the fourth largest in the world.

With over a 60% share of the Indian Ratings market, CRISIL Ratings is the agency of choice for issuers and investors.

CRISIL Ratings is a full service rating agency that offers a comprehensive range of rating services. CRISIL Ratings provides the most reliable opinions on risk by combining its understanding of risk and the science of building risk frameworks, with a contextual understanding of business.

CRISIL is the only rating agency to operate on the basis of a sectoral specialisation, which underpins the sharpness of analysis, responsiveness of the process and large-scale dissemination of opinion pieces.

CRISIL has rated over 24,541 debt instruments worth Rs.30.71 trillion (over USD 654.985 billion)^* issued by over 7,938 debt issuers, including manufacturing companies, banks, financial institutions (FIs), state governments and municipal corporations.

CRISIL Ratings also offers technical know-how overseas. For instance, it has provided assistance and training for setting up ratings agencies in Malaysia (RAM) and Israel and in the Caribbean . In March 2004, CRISIL took up an equity stake of about 9% in the share capital of the Caribbean Information & Credit Rating Services Limited (CariCRIS), with an investment of US $ 300,000. The Caribbean rating agency is a unique initiative -- it is the world's first regional credit rating agency. It will offer rating and other services in 19 countries. CRISIL will also provide technical assistance to the agency to establish and stabilise its operations.

^{* 1 USD = INR 46.7593 as on Dec 31, 2009}