Government Policies and Financial Inclusion
By Suyash Rai, Advocacy, IFMR Finance Foundation Markets typically exist within the boundaries set by the state. The financial markets are no exception to this. Mobilisation and allocation of capital –...
View ArticleUniversalizing Complete Access to Finance: Key Conceptual Issues
As part of the working papers series of the Asian Development Bank Institute, Bindu, Suyash and Dr. Nachiket Mor have penned a working paper on ‘Universalizing Complete Access to Finance: Key...
View ArticleTaking banking to the last mile
By Farzana Najeeb, IFMR Finance Foundation & Arun Seethamraju, IFMR Rural Finance Efforts to promote financial inclusion achieved momentum in the country with the RBI guidelines in January 2006,...
View ArticleRegulating Microfinance in India: IFMR Trust’s feedback on the Malegam...
The Malegam Committee’s (referred to hereinafter as the “Committee”) recommendations to increase the supervisory capacity of the RBI, to make MFI regulation consistent at the national level, to promote...
View ArticleExpert Committee on Urban Infrastructure releases report
By Anand Sahasranaman, IFMR Finance Foundation The High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) for estimating the investment requirements for urban infrastructure services released its final report recently....
View ArticleField visit to FINO customer service points
Business Correspondence (BC) model or the third-party agent banking was launched in 2006 in India, with the intent of increasing the ambit of the formal banking sector. Since its inception in 2006,...
View ArticleNPS Lite: Securing Old Age Income
By Natalie Colatosti, Advocacy Team Member, IFMR Finance Foundation The announcement of National Pension System (NPS) Lite, a pension plan geared towards economically disadvantaged populations, brings...
View ArticleIs SHG model better than microfinance?
Finance Matters column in The Hindu Business Line – Farzana Najeeb of Advocacy writes the fifth article in the series. Excerpt: In the past few weeks with microfinance under public scrutiny, the...
View ArticleThe Case for Small Banks
By Suyash Rai, IFMR Finance Foundation In what could become a welcome trend, the RBI has started putting out detailed discussion notes on future policy steps. Recently, the central bank released a...
View ArticleFinancing Public Infrastructure in Rural India
– By Anand Sahasranaman, IFMR Trust Gram panchayats in India are independent, constitutional bodies of governance that operate at the level closest to the people or the grass-roots. They are...
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