A managing director at Standard & Poor's Financial Services Ratings Group, Tanya Azarchs is responsible for coordinating research on issues affecting financial institutions worldwide. She frequently authors research on special topics. Tanya is responsible for the ratings of large, complex banks and securities firms in the U.S. and Canada, and is involved in the analytical effort on Eastern European banks. She is also a member of the global financial institutions ratings criteria board, which develops ratings criteria and reviews ratings across the globe for consistency. As a senior analyst, she participates in rating committees for banks in many regions of the world. Tanya joined the Financial Institutions Ratings group in 1989, after following the largest U.S. banks as an equities analyst for Standard & Poor's since 1984. Prior to that she was involved in securities analysis as a generalist since 1980. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
