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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

Head - Financial Systems Design

Navaneeth M S

Research Associate

Shree Harini Dvara Research

Shree Harini V

Research Associate

Sowmini G Prasad Dvara

Sowmini G Prasad

Senior Research Associate

Our Work

January 17, 2014 | Dvara Research

In the below video Dr. Nachiket Mor articulates the RBI committee's vision for financial inclusion and financial deepening in India covering aspects of Universal Electronic Bank Account, Payments, Credit, Priority Sector Lending and Customer Protection.

By Dvara Research
January 13, 2014 | Dvara Research

Since its release on January 7, it has been heartening to see the amount of debate and interest generated by the Report of the Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services, chaired by Dr. Nachiket Mor.

November 22, 2013 | Dvara Research

As a follow-up to our earlier post where we had talked about our first securitisation in the Commercial Vehicle (CV) Finance space, in this post we briefly provide an overview of the industry and discuss the key risk factors affecting the CV industry along with factors that impact the performance of a portfolio of CV loans.

By Ramasubramanian S V
October 18, 2013 | Dvara Research

When you have two systems running in parallel, the hardest part is always managing the interface between the two. Customers don’t usually all migrate to the new system entirely and at the same time, so there is a need for the new system to offer backward compatibility with the older, more established system.

By Ignacio Mas-Ribo, Abhishek Sinha
September 19, 2013 | IFMR Finance Foundation

This note highlights the need for active and deep debt capital markets, both fixed income and derivative markets in India.

By Sucharita Mukherjee
September 4, 2013 | Dvara Research

This note assesses the state of the Indian banking system including its small overall size and high concentration risk, poor indicators of financial inclusion and depth, opaque balance sheets, weak profitability, and highly covariant strategies followed by government-owned banks.

By Bindu Ananth, Vineet Sukumar
August 30, 2013 | Dvara Research

The Reserve Bank of India has published on its website, a discussion paper on Banking Structure in India – The Way Forward which covers the following aspects:

July 28, 2013 | Dvara Research

A friend pointed me to an interesting new book recently, “Inside China’s Shadow Banking: the Next Subprime Crisis”. This is written by an investment banker turned shadow banker, Joe Zhang.

July 12, 2013 | Dvara Research

The financial-legal framework envisaged by the FSLRC comprises nine important components, one of which is Micro-prudential regulation.

July 8, 2013 | Dvara Research

As a part of our series on Municipal Finance, we present a summary of Anand Sahasranaman’s paper on Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reforms in India, published in the November 2012 edition of Environment and Urbanisation Asia

By Anand Sahasranaman