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Financial Systems Design

A well-functioning and resilient financial system needs a good mix of institutions that collectively meet the financial intermediation needs of the country, be it individuals, households, businesses, sectors and local governments, while simultaneously enhancing the stability of the system as a whole.

Amulya Neelam Dvara

Amulya Neelam

Senior Research Associate

Deepti George Dvara

Deepti George

Deputy ED and Head of Strategy

Dwijaraj Bhattacharya

Dwijaraj Bhattacharya

Research Manager

Sowmini G Prasad Dvara

Sowmini G Prasad

Research Associate

Our Work

November 2, 2018 | Dvara Research

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been publishing its bi-annual Financial Stability Reports (FSR) from May 2010. The FSRs provide extensive information about the way the RBI conducts its stress tests on the banking system; an aggregate sense of the results of such tests provide a measure of the overall resilience and stability of […]

By Madhu Srinivas, Deepti George, Nishanth Kumar
October 25, 2018 | LiveMint

NBFCs are particularly vulnerable to wholesale funding constraints in the form of high and volatile borrowing costs

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
October 24, 2018 | Dvara Research

Ideas on how to benefit from the account opening momentum and make progress on usage as well.

By Bindu Ananth, Greta Bull
October 24, 2018 | Financial Express

Ideas on how to benefit from the account opening momentum and make progress on usage as well.

By Bindu Ananth, Greta Bull
October 16, 2018 | Dvara Research

The Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a large-scale policy intervention designed to address the well-established credit gap for micro and small enterprises in India.

By Financial Systems Design
October 12, 2018 | Moneycontrol

Banks not passing on rate cuts points to a lack of intensity in price competition and calls for increasing the number of lenders

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
September 7, 2018 | BQ Prime

Op-Ed in Bloomberg Quint

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
August 31, 2018 | Dvara Research

A closer look at recent Payments Banks KYC and conduct violations.

By Deepti George, Beni Chugh, Madhu Srinivas
August 19, 2018 | Dvara Research

Op-Ed in Bloomberg Quint

By Deepti George, Madhu Srinivas
April 23, 2018 | LiveMint

The troubles of the banking sector, and public sector banks (PSBs) in particular, are well known.