Company website: https://gcrratings.com/

Profile

GCR Ratings (GCR) is Africa’s leading rating agency, with a rating coverage in excess of 500 ratings in over 20 African countries. Through its network of local offices in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Mauritius, GCR has the largest rating team in Africa, which gives it unmatched on-the-ground presence, as well as easy access to market participants.

GCR traces its origins back to 1996 and has since established itself as the leading rating agency in Africa, accounting for the majority of all ratings accorded on the African continent. GCR is licensed as a rating agency in a number of markets, including Kenya with the Capital Markets Authority, Nigeria with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Zimbabwe with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Mauritius with the Financial Services Commission. In South Africa, GCR is registered as a Credit Rating Services Provider by the Financial Services Conduct Authority and is recognised as an eligible External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) by the South African Reserve Bank.

Event Sponsorships

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2022 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Francophone Africa 2021 Virtual - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019 - Bronze Sponsor

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2018 - Bronze Sponsor

Contributors

Fabrice Toka

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Francophone Africa 2021 Virtual

• Assessing emerging trends and perspectives on the local currency debt markets

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• BY INVITATION ONLY: East African Investor Breakfast Roundtable: Energy & Infrastructure

Yohan Assous

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020 - Virtual Conference

• Securitisation as a risk management asset class in the South African market: a useful case study for newer markets?

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2019

• Stimulating funding and investment through the introduction of securitisation and structured credit: Development in RSA and prospects to export the model to the rest of Africa

Matthew Pirnie

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2022

• Moving the needle on restructuring: What changes need to be implemented to create a robust market?

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Building resilience in an era of volatility: Unpacking the evolution of the banking sector in Africa

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 24 2020

• How to navigate the African loan markets now and post-COVID19

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Africa 2020

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2019

• The benefits of achieving regulatory harmonisation and good governance and its impact on developing the local capital markets

Bonds, Loans & Sukuk East Africa 2018