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Informist, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025

 

--SEBI eases regulations for credit rating agencies

 

MUMBAI – The Securities and Exchange Board of India Wednesday eased regulations of credit rating agencies for ease of doing business. The market regulator has allowed such agencies to carry out rating of financial instruments falling under the purview of another regulator even in the absence of any rating guidelines by the respective regulator.

 

Currently, even though such agencies rate bank loans under the guidelines of the Reserve Bank of India, they are constrained from rating unlisted debt instruments due to lack of explicit rating guidelines, SEBI said in a press release. "Enabling these ratings would ensure availability of ratings for a wider set of financial instruments and would be beneficial for the development of overall debt market."

 

The regulator's board has approved safeguards for credit rating agencies, including separation of disclosures on websites and marketing material. It has also approved upfront disclosures for new clients of these agencies and written intimation to existing clients with regard to activities under the purview of other financial regulators.  End

 

Reported by Anjana Therese Antony and J. Navya Sruthi

Edited by Ashish Shirke

 

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