IT Services Annual review July 2009

CRISIL Ltd.
July 31, 2009
176 Pages - SKU: CRSL2433873
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Export growth rate to remain flat in 2009-10 After registering healthy growth for several years, the estimated export growth rate for the IT services sector moderated to around 12 per cent y-o-y in 2008-09 and is expected to further dip in 2009-10. Indian IT service players continue to face the brunt of a slowdown in the key markets of US and UK and the key vertical of banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI). Clients across the board are cutting down IT budgets and seeking concessions on billing rates from their vendors. This does not augur well for Indian IT services players in the near term. CRISIL Research expects the decline in global IT spends, weakening demand, delay in decision making and weak sentiments due to the protectionist stand taken by developed countries to further pull down the IT services export growth rate in the band of 2 to -2 per cent in 2009-10.