Standard & Poor's is the leading provider of financial market intelligence to investors, issuers and intermediaries in the Gulf's credit risk, wealth management, and data and information markets, and we have been active in the region for more than 15 years.
This regional focus web page demonstrates the expertise that our analytics bring to all sectors in the Gulf region, from sovereigns to securitization, and from project finance to the banks and insurers who often share the risk of those projects.
Standard & Poor's was voted
Best Islamic Rating Agency for 2007 by readers of
Islamic Finance News, the world’s leading capital markets-focused Islamic finance publication. The accolade recognised Standard & Poor’s commitment to fostering the development of Islamic capital markets and their integration with global markets through its credit research and ratings on Islamic banks, takaful insurers and sukuk.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is the largest provider of credit ratings in the Gulf, rating close to 100 issuers and 20 sukuk issues, and our ratings are increasingly used as a tool to support diversifying the investor base, attracting capital from outside the region, and improving transparency.
Standard & Poor's Index Services offers a powerful lineup of nearly 30 Shariah indices covering close to 30,000 global stocks that enable Islamic investors to benchmark their investments on a regional basis, and give product providers the opportunity to develop structured products tailored to the Islamic market.
Islamic
Finance Outlook 2008 provides topical research articles on Islamic
finance and rating methodologies specific to this area, as well as selected summary analyses of the Islamic institutions and sukuk issues rated by Standard & Poor's.
Our
Gulf Cooperation Council Credit Survey 2008 is a comprehensive
publication on our ratings and research activity across a wide range of sectors, as well as numerous related criteria and commentary articles.
G.C.C. Outlook is Standard & Poor's latest quarterly newsletter outlining the latest analysis on the region's capital markets for the fourth quarter of 2007.
