Financial Insight for the Gulf Cooperation Council

The leading provider of ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data, Standard & Poor's has been active in the region for more than 15 years.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Our credit ratings are increasingly used as a tool to support diversifying the investor base, and attracting capital to the region:

• One of the largest provider of credit ratings in the Gulf, rating over 100 issuers and over 20 sukuk issues across the six Gulf states.
  
• Committed to the development of Islamic capital markets and its integration with global markets through our credit research and ratings on Islamic banks, takaful insurers and sukuk.

Standard & Poor's Shariah Indices
An impressive line-up of nearly 30 Shariah indices, with Indices covering close to 30,000 global stocks that provide Islamic investors with a tool to benchmark their investments on a regional basis:

• S&P 500 Shariah
• S&P BMI Global Shariah
• S&P Emerging Markets Shariah
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Standard & Poor's Emerging Markets
Our Emerging Markets Database (EMDB) contains historical data on the performance of 2,200 index constituents dating back to 1975. Learn more.

S&P's Emerging Market Indices are widely recognized by the investor community as one of the most comprehensive and reliable measures of the world's emerging markets, with an underlying database housing the deep and robust data history. Learn more.

Standard & Poor's Fund Management Ratings
Our qualitative fund management ratings provide valuable investor insight. Our initiative to develop a deeper funds presence and visibility in the Gulf region has resulted in 13 rated Gulf linked funds.