The new regime must be one that can hold all entities to a common standard of institutional conduct in how they deal with the individual customer, including how they sell products.
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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.
Head - Financial Systems Design
Research Associate
Research Associate
The new regime must be one that can hold all entities to a common standard of institutional conduct in how they deal with the individual customer, including how they sell products.
Recommendations that financial sector regulators can consider applying on regulated financial services providers in order to improve outcomes for households and enterprises.
Without focus by regulators on mis-sale, we put confidence of retail customers at risk
India is a bank-dominated financial system with most of the financial assets belonging to the banking sector.
This Note has been prepared for regulated lending institutions who are in the business of offering small-ticket short-term unsecured loans with equated monthly or weekly repayment schedules, to low-income individuals and households in India.
The objectives of sustainable businesses are well-aligned with ensuring the financial health of households, and this holds true for all types of lending businesses.
Summary of process innovations aimed at addressing concerns of household over-indebtedness and the subsequent stress experienced by members of the household.
Proceeds from the Suitability Workshop in Mumbai, Oct 2018.
Several studies have found that the Indian banking sector, while having a large number of players, has monopolistic competition.
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 […]
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