MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	503689
Report Date :	14.04.2018

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	PERSISTENT SYSTEMS INC.
Registered Office :	818 W Seventh St Ste 930, Los Angeles CA 90017
Country :	United States
Financials (as on) :	2016 (Summarized)
Date of Incorporation :	18.10.2001
Legal Form :	Corporation
Line of Business :	The Company's line of business includes providing computer processing and data preparation services.
No. of Employees :	930

RATING & COMMENTS

(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23^rd January 2017)

MIRA’s Rating :

A

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A	Acceptable Risk	Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default

Status :	Good
Payment Behaviour :	Regular
Litigation :	Clear

NOTES:

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List

Country Name	Previous Rating (30.09.2017)	Current Rating (31.12.2017)
United States	A1	A1

Risk Category	ECGC Classification
Insignificant	A1
Low Risk	A2
Moderately Low Risk	B1
Moderate Risk	B2
Moderately High Risk	C1
High Risk	C2
Very High Risk	D

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $59,500. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at purchasing power parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.

In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, businesses face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.

Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.

The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.

Imported oil accounts for more than 50% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. Because the US economy is energy-intensive, falling oil prices since 2013 have alleviated many of the problems the earlier increases had created.

The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the US into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009, Congress passed and former President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the Federal Government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through FY 2018, the direct costs of the wars will have totaled more than $1.9 trillion, according to US Government figures.

In March 2010, former President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million Americans by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on healthcare - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.

In July 2010, the former president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.

In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short-term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. The Fed ended its purchases during the summer of 2014, after the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt fell below 74% of GDP. In December 2015, the Fed raised its target for the benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25%, the first increase since the recession began. With continued low growth, the Fed opted to raise rates several times since then, and in December 2017, the target rate stood at 1.5%.

In December 2017, Congress passed and President Donald TRUMP signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, among its various provisions, reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; lowers the individual tax rate for those with the highest incomes from 39.6% to 37%, and by lesser percentages for those at lower income levels; changes many deductions and credits used to calculate taxable income; and eliminates in 2019 the penalty imposed on taxpayers who do not obtain the minimum amount of health insurance required under the ACA. The new taxes took effect on 1 January 2018; the tax cut for corporations are permanent, but those for individuals are scheduled to expire after 2025. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) under the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new law will reduce tax revenues and increase the federal deficit by about $1.45 trillion over the 2018-2027 period. This amount would decline if economic growth were to exceed the JCT’s estimate.

Source : CIA

STATUTORY INFORMATION
Legal Name:	PERSISTENT SYSTEMS INC.
Trade Names:	PERSISTENT SYSTEMS INC.
ID:	C2362913
Date Created:	2001
Date Incorporated:	10/18/2001
Legal Address:	818 W SEVENTH ST STE 930 LOS ANGELES CA 90017, USA
Operative Address:	2055 LAURELWOOD ROAD, SUITE 210 SANTA CLARA CA 95054, USA
Telephone:	1-408-216-7010
Fax:	1-408-451-9177
Legal Form:	CORPORATION
Email:	sid_chatterjee@persistent.com
Registered in:	CANADA
Website:	www.persistent.com
Contact:	Siddhartha Chatterjee - President
Staff:	930
Activity:	SIC code 7374 - Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing
Banks BANK OF AMERICA
History The company was incorporated in 2001 and is based in San Jose, California.
Parent Company:	Persistent Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of: Persistent Systems Limited. Bhageerath 402 East, Senapati Bapat Road Pune, 411016 India
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
The Company's line of business includes providing computer processing and data preparation services.
Products/Services description:	Persistent Systems, Inc. provides software development, consultancy, and system integration services.
Brands:	PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
Sales are:	Retail
Clients:	Private Customers
Suppliers:	NA
Operations area:	National
The company imports from	No import found.
The company exports to	No export records found.
The subject employs	930 employees
Payments:	Regular
LOCATION
Headquarters :	2055 LAURELWOOD ROAD, SUITE 210 SANTA CLARA CA 95054, USA
Comments on Address:	-
Branches:	No other branches were found.
Related Companies:	No related companies were found.
GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Listed at the stock exchange:	NO
Capital:	NA
Shareholders:	The company does not disclose information on shareholders. The following information has been provided by private sources and could not be confirmed: Persistent Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of: Persistent Systems Limited. Bhageerath 402 East, Senapati Bapat Road Pune, 411016 India
Management:	Siddhartha Chatterjee – President Anand Despande - Chief Executive Officer Chairman Director Jitendra Gokhale - President IBM Alliance Atul Khadilkar - President Corporate Operations
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
The company does not make its financial statements public. The following information has been provided by private sources:
USD 2016
Revenue	158.000.000
Cash flow	Normal
LEGAL FILINGS
PATENTS	No records found.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS	No records found.
CASES	Pantaurus, LLC v. Persistent Systems, LLC Filed: December 23, 2016 as 6:2016cv02216 Plaintiff: Pantaurus, LLC Defendant: Persistent Systems, LLC Cause Of Action: Patent Infringement Court: Eleventh Circuit › Florida › Florida Middle District Court Type: Intellectual Property › Patent
TRADEMARKS	PAXONIX TRAINING SERVICES IN THE FIELDS OF PACKAGING DESIGN, PACKAGING MATERIALS AND PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION Owned by: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, INC. Serial Number: 76160181 PAXONIX Training services in the fields of packaging design, packaging materials and product distribution Owned by: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, INC. Serial Number: 76181667 THE PACKAGE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE training services in the fields of packaging design, packaging materials and product distribution Owned by: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, INC. Serial Number: 78579984 PAXPRO Providing a website for use by others for the storage and retrieval of graphic and text files related to package and marketing… Owned by: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, INC. Serial Number: 78953039 PAXONIX providing online non-downloadable software for use in designing of packaging and marketing materials, for storing and retrieving… Owned by: PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, INC. Serial Number: 78972004
RENEWAL HISTORY	Document Type File Date SI-COMPLETE 08/24/2017 SI-COMPLETE 02/10/2017 AMENDMENT 06/14/2016 AMENDMENT 09/17/2014 AMENDMENT 01/12/2012 AMENDMENT 07/28/2004 AMENDMENT 07/08/2003 AMENDMENT 01/08/2002 REGISTRATION 10/18/2001
UCC	No records found.
OFAC Sanctions List Search	The company is not listed in the OFAC list.
SUMMARY Founded in 2001, Persistent Systems Inc. is an organization in the Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing Industry headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company has 930 regular employees and generates an estimated $158 million USD in annual revenue. The company operates nationally. It is ACTIVE in business with no negative records.
RISK INFORMATION
DEBTS	Controlled
PAYMENTS	Regular
CASH FLOW	Normal
STATUS	Active
INTERVIEW
NAME	Michael
POSITION	Sales
COMMENTS	He confirmed the name of the company, the address of the headquarters and location and the date of creation of the company. He was reluctant to provide further information.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Currency	Unit	Indian Rupees
US Dollar	1	INR 65.22
UK Pound	1	INR 92.77
Euro	1	INR 80.34
USD	1	INR 65.21

Note: Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct

INFORMATION DETAILS

Analysis Done by :	VIV
Report Prepared by :	NIT

RATING EXPLANATIONS

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A++	Minimum Risk	Business dealings permissible with minimum risk of default
A+	Low Risk	Business dealings permissible with low risk of default
A	Acceptable Risk	Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default
B	Medium Risk	Business dealings permissible on a regular monitoring basis
C	Medium High Risk	Business dealings permissible preferably on secured basis
D	High Risk	Business dealing not recommended or on secured terms only
NB	New Business	No recommendation can be done due to business in infancy stage
NT	No Trace	No recommendation can be done as the business is not traceable

NB is stated where there is insufficient information to facilitate rating. However, it is not to be considered as unfavourable.

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors are as follows:

· Financial condition covering various ratios

· Company background and operations size

· Promoters / Management background

· Payment record

· Litigation against the subject

· Industry scenario / competitor analysis

· Supplier / Customer / Banker review (wherever available)

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