SMERA Ratings Private Limited | |
Foundation: | 2005[1] |
Location: | 905, Lodha Supremus, Kanjurmarg East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Industry: | Credit Ratings |
Key People: | Prosenjit Ghosh, Sankar Chakraborti |
Products: | Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) Rating, Credit Due Diligence, Microfinace Grading, SMERA Terminal |
Parent: | Acuité Ratings & Research Limited |
SMERA, widely known as ‘The SME Rating Agency’, is a credit rating agency in India that provides credit ratings primarily of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Initially an initiative of the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and the Reserve Bank of India, SMERA is now a subsidiary of Acuité Ratings & Research Limited.[2] [3] Acuité, a joint initiative of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Private Limited (D&B), Standard Chartered, ICICI and leading public sector banks in India, is registered with SEBI as a credit rating agency.[4] [5] [6]