Acuite Ratings & Research Limited is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization. Great Place to Work® Certification is recognized world over by employees and employers alike and is considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in identifying and recognizing Great Workplace Cultures. Acuite Ratings & Research Limited, has created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees by excelling on the 5 dimensions of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. Business Description:Acuité Ratings & Research Limited is the flagship company of Acuite Group. It is a full-service Credit Rating Agency registered with SEBI and accredited by RBI. and enjoys the unique advantage of being backed by the country’s largest and most powerful public and private sector banks. Acuite also gains from being co-promoted by Dun & Bradstreet - a global data & analytics company. 

As one of India’s leading credit rating and research company, Acuité actively pursues its goal to unlock the growth potential of financial markets and enable its clients to sharpen their insights to make informed and judicious investment and lending decisions. Today, Acuité is strongly established in the domestic ratings market with a significant market share in bank loan ratings. Its ratings are well accepted by bankers and investors in debt capital markets and covers a wide cross section of the economy. Acuite has presence in both the corporate and the financial sector Since 2012, it has assigned ratings to more than 9400 companies spread across the country and across a wide cross section of industries issuing various securities, debt instruments and availing bank facilities. The Company also has an economic research division, and is widely regarded for its expert views and impact analysis on significant economic developments and outlook of various sectors. Our mix of clients comprise of large and small-sized private corporate houses; public sector giants and reputable names in the financial sector. They belong to diverse sectors ranging from steel, aviation, banking, telecom, IT & ITes, oil and gas and power to the hotel, retail, leather and jewellery industry and more. Acuité promoted two unique companies, both pioneers in the respective areas. SMERA Ratings Private Limited (SMERA) is the world’s first SME rating agency. SMERA provides an independent and unbiased opinion on the financial strength and credibility of an SME in relation to other SMEs. SMERA has rated over 50,000 SMEs in the last 16 years. SMERA, apart from rating MSMEs, also grades Microfinance Institutions, Real Estate Developers, Real Estate Projects, and conduct Feasibility studies, model validation. 

ESG Risk Assessments & Insights (ESGRisk.ai) is India’s first ESG Rating company with an India specific assessment framework. ESGRisk.ai is empaneled with AMFI as ESG rating provider to the mutual fund industry of India. Till date, ESGRisk.ai has rated 1000+ top Indian companies. ESGRisk.ai also undertakes assignments related to ESG rating for listed & unlisted companies, gap analysis & benchmarking, E&S Risk Assessment Models, ESG training, ESG Research on Mutual Funds. 

We have 6 offices across India with our Registered & Head Office in Mumbai. In line with our name Acuité, meaning sharpness of thoughts and vision, we empower the capital market participants viz. investors, issuers or lenders, to make knowledge backed decisions. Acuité is one of those companies which solely depends on human capital, not just to create wealth for its shareholders but also make the capital markets function better, more transparently and efficiently. To our talented people, we offer fast growth. Our intensive training programs, job rotation and working with CFOs and CEOs of corporates across the country to rate them provide immense learning opportunities to them. Also, working in a youth oriented organisation of high repute and integrity and ability to make a difference to the capital markets make them extremely proud.