Daily News Clips on Financial Inclusion
One has different ways to keep track of the latest news and updates on financial inclusion in India
NSE-IFMR Finance Foundation (IFF) Financial Deepening & Household Finance Research
From the hills of Uttarakhand
I am writing from Thatyur village in Theri district, Jaunour block – about 3.5 hours north of Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India.
IFMR Holdings partners with Accion, LeapFrog and Lok Capital to scale up our financial inclusion platform
Our mission to “ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services” took a significant step forward with an equity investment of US$ 25 million in IFMR Holdings by Accion, a financial inclusion pioneer, LeapFrog Investments, a specialist investor in emerging-market financial services, and Lok Capital, an Indian impact investment firm. IFMR Trust is the promoter and remains the majority shareholder of the company.
Pudhuaaru KGFS Turns 7 – The journey so far
On June 1st, 2008, the journey of KGFS began with the inauguration of the first branch of Pudhuaaru KGFS in Karambayam village of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. From its humble origins, today Pudhuaaru KGFS has 87 branches operating in the remote rural regions of Thanjavur district (Thanjavur, Kumbakonam and Pattukottai) serving a total of 1460 villages in the area.
Insights from a Deep dive exercise in Sahastradhara KGFS, Uttarakhand
Sahastradhara KGFS started its operations in the year 2008 with a mission “to maximise the financial wellbeing of every individual and every enterprise by providing complete financial services in remote rural Garhwal”.
District selection and estimating the potential of the KGFS entity through GDP Mapping
This is the first blog post in the KGFS (Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services) Model Incubation series.
Designing a Framework for Event Risk & Loss Estimation
This post is the first post in a new blog series that would delve and deliberate on different aspects of designing a framework that would enable a credit institution to identify the exposure to extreme events and to estimate the potential losses due to such events.
How Can Group Loans be Provided more Responsibly?
Below is an excerpt from a blog post that Rachit Khaitan & Vaishnavi Prathap of IFMR Finance Foundation had authored for the CGAP blog:
Global Call for Proposals for Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration
In addition to the previously announced call for research proposals under the NSE-IFF Financial Deepening and Household Finance Research Initiative,
