Crisil has entered into a marketing tie-up with Standard & Poor's Financial Information Services to sell products of Platt's, the provider of information on the commodities market, and MMS International which specialises in providing real-time news.
Crisil will also give analytical inputs to the two organisations about India for their reports sold to international customers. The alliance was announced here by R Ravimohan, managing director, Crisil and Kenneth Ho, managing director, Asia Pacific, S&P FIS.
S&P MMS specialises in providing real-time news, market commentaries, analytics and outlook on currency, bond and money markets worldwide. Platt's specialises in providing real-time prices, information and research on commodities such as oil, petroleum, petrochemicals, metals and energy.
According to Ravimohan, "With the hard times in the market, players need more analytical inputs, and this makes it the right time to bring in the products of MMS and Platt's." Says Jorge Montepeque, editorial director, Asia Pacific, Platt's, "Ours is an editorial operation which covers commodities, and we have a multimedia delivery system to reach the information to our clients."
The latest of Platt's 100 customers in India is the Comptroller and Auditor General. MMS, on the other hand, has 50 clients in India including leading nationalised and foreign banks.
