ACRA Analytical Credit Rating Agency

Company

Consulting, including management and personnel
Since 2015
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
75 Sadovnicheskaya embankment, 115035

Top managers:
Sukhov Mikhail Igorevich
Gusakov Vladimir

Owners:
Alfa-Bank Russia
Sberbank
Severstal

Content

Chronicle

Owners

+ Fridman Mikhail Maratovich

+ Aven Petr Olegovich

+ Andrey Nikolaevich Kosogov

+ The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

+ UniCredit Group (UCG, UniCredit S.p.A.)

+ Khan German Borisovich

+ Alexey Viktorovich Kuzmichev

+ Alfa Group

+ Government of the Russian Federation

+ Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov

ACRA's activities are regulated by the Bank of Russia.

Chronicle

2023: Vladimir Gusakov - New CEO

On August 18, 2023, the Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) announced the change of CEO. Instead of Mikhail Sukhov, who will resign on August 30, 2023, a member of the Board of Directors of ACRA, Managing Director for Interaction with Issuers and Authorities of the Moscow Exchange Vladimir Gusakov was appointed. Sukhov will move to the position of adviser to the board of directors of ACRA. Read more here.

2020: Mikhail Sukhov - New CEO

On April 28, 2020, the ACRA rating agency appointed Mikhail Sukhov to the post of general director instead of Maxim Bogdashkin, who led the company since the end of 2019. Read more here.

2019

CEO Ekaterina Trofimova leaves the company

In January 2019, the head of the board of directors of ACRA Karl Johansson informed employees about the resignation of the general director of the company Ekaterina Trofimova.

Otkritie Holding withdraws from agency capital

The peculiarity of ACRA is that the shareholders at the founding included 27 shareholders - financial and industrial companies with equal shares. Thus, it was assumed that shareholders would not be able to exert pressure on rating decisions. At the same time, for three years, shareholders could not leave the capital of the agency. On January 16, 2019, Otkritie Holding, which was a shareholder of Otkritie FC before its reorganization, decided to withdraw from the agency's capital. The company also decided to terminate its participation in the capital of Expert RA.

Downgrade to Дом.РФ Bank

On January 14, 2019, ACRA downgraded the bank ДОМ.РФ (formerly Russian Capital), created to finance the construction of apartment buildings on behalf of the president. Vladimir Putin This decrease caused indignation among the Deputy Minister of Construction HOUSING AND PUBLIC UTILITIES Russia and Nikita Stasishin.

"This is a slight decrease, and of course nothing will prevent the creation of a construction bank, because there is an order from the president. The question here is, rather, to the qualification of ACRA, which, after several detailed meetings, did not accept our arguments. We will not hold more empty meetings, "Stasishin said.

2018: Key staff leaving

In August-September 2018, key employees began to leave the agency - Kirill Lukashuk left the company, under whose leadership the Otkritie Bank rating was issued shortly before its reorganization, senior director, head of the sovereign and regional ratings group Andrei Piskunov, director of the bank ratings group Alexander Proklov and others. The F&P channel wrote about this, employees confirmed this information.

2017: VTB complaints about ACRA rating methodology

The ratings of the companies that ACRA assigned have repeatedly displeased customers. For example, in January 2017, VTB Bank, one of the ACRA shareholders, refused to publish the agency's rating, as it received a rating lower than expected.

"We are not satisfied with the methodology that they use, because they rate us even lower than the Western rating agencies, which we complained about, about their politicized approach," said VTB head Andrei Kostin.

He also reported that the bank is looking for a buyer for a stake in ACRA, but the bank is still listed on the website as part of shareholders.

The rating of FC Otkritie Bank, released two months before its reorganization, in June 2017, also turned out to be resonant. This rating limited the bank in attracting funds from the federal budget and NPFs to deposits, as well as the weak ability of the bank to generate capital, risks of a threat of liquidity decline.

2016: Composition of the Board of Directors

For 2016, the ACRA team looked like this:

General Director of ACRA Ekaterina Trofimova.

On the board of directors of ACRA, in addition to the general director:

Karl Johansson - Ex-CIS Managing Partner of Ernst & Young Audit Company - Chairman of the Board of Directors of ACRA , USA
Thomas Missong - Managing Director of Ratingplatform, Austria
Anoir Hassoun - Co-owner of rating agency WestAfricaRatingAgency, Luxembourg
Vincent Truglia is an ex-employee of the rating agency Moody's, USA.

2015: Founding of the agency as part of the reform

ACRA Agency appeared in 2015 as a result of the reform of the rating industry in Russia. As part of the reform, ratings on the national scale in Russia since 2015 can be issued only by agencies accredited by the Central Bank and operating in Russia as independent legal entities. This circle did not include the "daughters" of international agencies - Fitch, S&P and Moody's. Two agencies received accreditation - ACRA and Expert RA.

ACRA shareholders - 27 large Russian companies and financial institutions with shares of 3.7% of the authorized capital, the total volume of which is > 3 billion rubles.

The agency acts in accordance with regulatory requirements and sees its main task as providing the Russian market with a high-quality rating product. After ACRA is included in the register of credit rating agencies of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the Agency plans to assign credit ratings on a national scale to such categories of issuers as financial institutions, corporate sector organizations, regional and municipal authorities of the Russian Federation, structured financial instruments.

It is planned to develop activities not only in the Russian market, but also in the territory of the European Union.

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