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Center For Customer Protection

This program focuses on solutions that speak to the changing landscape of issues pertaining to financial customer protection in India. It studies how institutional practices in customer protection can build trust and confidence to increase uptake and usage of formal financial products and services among low-income, rural, and women consumers.

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Aishwarya Narayan

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Early Writings

Our Work

January 14, 2023 | ET BFSI, The Economic Times

Tremendous efforts have gone into creating new authoritiessuch as the Central Consumer Protection Authority.

November 3, 2022

There are several reasons for low take-up of life insurance policies in general and specifically low take-up of term life insurance. These factors range from supply side barriers such as misaligned incentive structures for agents selling life insurance policies, lack of availability and accessibility to a larger suite of life insurance products customized to the needs of low-income households to demand-side barriers such as household’s contextual factors that limit their awareness and priority for a life insurance product and their behavioural preferences pertaining to life insurance products.

July 22, 2022 | Dvara Research

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) products have become one of the popular modes for customers to finance their retail purchases. BNPL products are being postured as challengers to credit cards that can make credit more accessible to customers at little to no cost.

By Madhu Srinivas, Srikara Prasad
May 5, 2022 | Dvara Research

This post summarises how BNPL lending functions and highlights customer protection concerns that can put at risk the promise of better credit access.

By Srikara Prasad, Sarah Stanley
April 1, 2022 | Dvara Research

The Centre for Customer Protection is announcing a call for proposals for the Voice of the Aggrieved Customer (VoAC) project, under the auspices of CPP. The Centre invites Consumer Groups, Self-Regulatory Organisations (SRO), industry associations, Financial Service Providers (FSPs) including digital FSPs, DFS agents and business correspondents, financial planners/advisors, investigative journalists, institutional and independent academicians, research institutions/think-tanks and scholars to submit proposals to document authentic experiences of customers, in the context of digital financial services and customer protection.

March 10, 2016 | Dvara Research

We recently hosted a series of knowledge management sessions at our office, as part of which we had invited Richa Roy of AZB & Partners as one of the speakers.

By Dvara Research
September 7, 2015 | Dvara Research

It is not often that the Supreme Court of India becomes disgruntled by the death of a buffalo. In September 2012, the highest court of the land found itself in just this situation following the death of an insured animal.

December 4, 2014 | Dvara Research

The RBI has published on its website the final Charter of Customer Rights for banking customers.

January 21, 2014 | Dvara Research

The Mor Committee Report offers a radical take on client protection, built around the concept of a legal right to suitability.

By Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, Center for Financial Inclusion
December 10, 2013 | LiveMint

Back Back Suitability means going from buyer beware to seller be sure

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India
  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India
  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India

  • Detecting Over-Indebtedness while Monitoring Credit Markets in India