CRISIL is India's leading Ratings, Financial News, Risk and Policy Advisory company.

Leveraging its core strengths, a unique combination of credibility and analytical rigour, CRISIL deliver opinions and solutions that help clients mitigate and manage their business & financial risks, make markets function better and shape public policy. CRISIL supports these through its unique width of offerings: Ratings & Risk Assessment, Gas & infrastructure Advisory, Financial News Services, Economic Advisory, Integrated research on the Economy, Industries & Companies, Global equity research, Fund Services and Risk Management.

CRISIL’s majority shareholder is Standard & Poor’s, the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations.

"Microfinance Institutions fulfill a critical objective of ensuring credit availability to the poorer sections of the society to fulfill their entreprereneurial ambitions and enhance their economic status. Microfinance will create a visible impact on the economically challenged only if they are provided on a sustainable basis. To make this happen, CRISIL provides gradings, opinions and solutions that help MFIs and apex MFIs mitigate and manage their business and financial risks. Banks and financial institutions also stand to benefit substantially from CRISIL's inputs in their endeavour to assess the key monitorables in micro credit and consequently ramp up their micro finance portfolios."
-- R. Ravimohan, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Mr Krishnan Sitaraman
Head - Financial Sector Ratings
CRISIL
CRISIL House, 121/122 Andheri Kurla Road,
Andheri(E), Mumbai - 400093, India
Phone - 91 22 56913116
Fax - 91 22 56913050
Email - ksitaraman@crisil.com

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