Answer: Option A
Answer: (a)
A credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations as well as the debt instruments themselves. In some cases, the servicers of the underlying debt are also given ratings.
CRISIL is the most influential and largest credit rating agency among all the credit rating agencies in India. ICRA Limited (ICRA) is one of India’s premier financial information services companies. It offers credit rating information and professional financial consulting services across India, as well as in the Asia-Pacific region through its subsidiaries.
CARE Ratings commenced operations in April 1993 and over nearly two decades, it has established itself as the second-largest credit rating agency in India.
The government established The Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) on July 1, 1948, as the first Development Financial Institution in the country to cater to the long-term finance needs of the industrial sector.