Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Curating Innovative Ideas through I-Innovate

In our endeavor to achieve our mission of ensuring that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services, we realize the crucial role that innovative ideas can play in this journey.

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.

The IFMR Trust Group Annual Update 2015: Enabling Access to Finance

The IFMR Trust Group has, since 2008, reached over 11 million financially excluded individuals across 24 states and 356 districts in India through its group companies, IFMR Finance Foundation, IFMR Rural Finance, and IFMR Holdings (IFMR Rural Channels and Services (IRCS),