ABHINAV SHARMA
(Managing Partner)

Abhinav has more than a decade of experience in the BFSI rating and credit analysis space covering Banks, NBFCs, MFIs, HFCs, Mutual Funds, Insurance and Securitization transactions. He had worked primarily with CARE Ratings in various roles and also worked with Standard Chartered Bank. He was the head of NBFI & Structured Finance ratings at CARE and in his last stint he was the CEO of CARE Ratings (Africa).

Abhinav was involved in the credit rating of more than 150 Banks & NBFCs with different business models including Retail Finance (Lending in Commercial Vehicles, Construction Equipment, Cars, Tractors, Gold, Property Mortgage, Shares, SMEs, Operating leases, Factoring etc.), Wholesale Finance (Corporate Lending, Infrastructure Finance, Promoter Funding, etc.), Brokerage Firms, Microfinance, Mutual Funds and Insurance. He also has extensive experience in the securitization assets (including ABS and MBS) and has rated over 100 transactions. He was also instrumental in building the Microfinance portfolio of CARE Ratings and has been working in this segment since 2009 (including rating of more than 50 leading MFIs across India). Complex products like valuation of PPMLD (Principal Protected Market Linked Debenture), Securitization Loss Reports, Infrastructure Debt Funds, Default Rate Computations, etc have been a part of his portfolio.

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