- Business
- ICRA Limited (ICRA.BO), founded in 1991 and headquartered in Gurugram, India, operates as an independent credit rating agency providing investment information, forward-looking credit opinions, and analytics solutions; its core offerings encompass credit ratings for rupee-denominated debt instruments issued by manufacturing companies, commercial banks, non-banking finance companies, financial institutions, public sector undertakings, and municipalities; research reports including credit perspective reports and sector-specific analyses; risk management frameworks and software solutions such as early warning systems, asset classification tools, and fixed income valuation platforms; mutual fund research and portfolio tracking tools powered by proprietary databases; knowledge services across banking, financial services, corporates, insurance, utilities, and healthcare; ESG ratings through its wholly-owned subsidiary ICRA ESG Ratings Limited; and customised data analytics and consulting. The ICRA Group, majority-owned by Moody's Corporation with a 51.86% stake as of December 2024, extends operations internationally through subsidiaries including ICRA Analytics Limited for digital platforms in risk management and market data, ICRA Nepal Limited as Nepal's first credit rating agency, ICRA Lanka Limited in Sri Lanka, and recently acquired entities Fintellix India Private Limited for data, risk, and regulatory solutions acquired for INR 225-246 crores in 2025, and a majority stake in D2K Technologies India Pvt Ltd by ICRA Analytics for digital transformation products serving banks and NBFCs. ICRA shares trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange, serving institutional investors, lenders, borrowers, issuers, and regulators primarily in India with select presence in South Asia.