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's Global Analytical Centre (GAC) supports the Global Resource Management initiative of Standard & Poor's (S&P). Under this initiative, GAC provides resources to S&P to improve workflow efficiencies, handle end-to-end analytical jobs, process information, and execute complex modelling assignments.
CRISIL Ratings is trusted by issuers, investors, and intermediaries, and has played a pivotal role in shaping India's credit market by regularly introducing new products and services.
| First corporate sector entity rating |
1988 |
| First financial sector entity rating |
1989 |
| First ABS rating with a separate symbol |
1991 |
| First bank rating |
1993 |
| First public finance rating |
1993 |
| First credit quality rating on a mutual fund's debt scheme |
1996 |
| First financial strength rating |
1998 |
| First municipal bond rating (first in Asia) |
1998 |
| First bond fund rating |
1998 |
| First MBS rating |
2000 |
| First Ratings Round-Up |
2000 |
| First rating based on partial guarantee (a global first) |
2001 |
| First hospital grading |
2002 |
| First governance and value creation rating |
2004 |
| First default study |
2005 |
| First fund governance rating |
2005 |
| First capital protected fund rating |
2006 |
| First bank loan rating |
2007 |
| Assignment of complexity levels, a pro bono service, for classifying capital market instruments into three categories based on the ease of understanding of the risk elements inherent in these instruments |
2008 |
| Sectoral CreditAlerts |
2009 |
| First multi asset MFI securitisation |
2010 |