CRISIL Limited, formerly Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited, is an Indian analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services and is a subsidiary of American company S&P Global.[4]
Formerly | Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited |
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Company type | Public subsidiary |
BSE: 500092 NSE: CRISIL | |
Founded | 1987[1] |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Key people | Amish Mehta (MD & CEO)[2] Sanjay Chakravarti (CFO) |
Services | Ratings, data, research, analytics and solutions |
Revenue | ₹2,076.3 crore (US$260 million) (December 2020)[3] |
₹354.7 crore (US$44 million) (December 2020)[3] | |
Parent | S&P Global (66%) |
Website | www |
CRISIL, was the first credit rating agency in India, introduced in 1988 by the ICICI and UTI jointly with share capital coming from SBI, LIC and United India Insurance Company. In April 2005, US based credit rating agency S&P acquired the majority shares of company.[5][6]
As of December 2020[update], the company has revenue of ₹20,763 million (equivalent to ₹24 billion or US$310 million in 2023), net income of ₹3,547 million (equivalent to ₹4.2 billion or US$52 million in 2023). It is also India's largest ratings company, and as of March 2022[update], it had a market cap of ₹23,429 crore (US$2.9 billion).[7]
The former Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley launched CriSidEx, India's first sentiment index for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) developed jointly by CRISIL and SIDBI.[8]
CriSidEx is a composite index based on a diffusion index of 8 parameters and measures MSE business sentiment on a scale of 0 (extremely negative) to 200 (extremely positive).[9] CriSidEx will have two indices, one for the 'survey quarter' and another for 'next quarter' once a trend emerges after few rounds of the survey, providing independent time series data.[8] The parametric feedback was captured through a survey of 1100 MSEs in November –December.
In February 2020, Crisil completed the acquisition of Greenwich Associates LLC, a provider of proprietary benchmarking data, analytics, and qualitative insights to financial services firms.[10]