The story
Founded by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière in 1991, in Paris.1
Fimalac was created by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière in 1991. He is the CEO, and holds 100% of the shares of the FIMALAC Group, that holds ~80% of Fimalac. It is headquartered in Paris. It operates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and other members of the European Union, Asia, and South America.
In 2005, Fimalac acquired Algorithmics Inc., which it sold to IBM in October 2011. That year, it acquired 40% of Groupe Lucien Barrière.
In 2018, Fimalac sold its last 20% of Fitch Ratings to Hearst Communications.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fimalac, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5