About CRISIL Ratings

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 the Pioneer

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