Publication: Dvara Research

This is the second post in our blog series on the Battle of Economic Ideas. You can read the first post here.

The power of ideas cannot be undermined. While the people and the events linked to them may wither, ideas can live for eternity.

In the previous blog post of the KGFS Model Incubation series, we drew out the implications of mapping the GDP of a branch’s service area on strategic decisions related to district selection, branch potential, product suitability and customer centricity.

In the previous post of this series on Event Risk & Loss Estimation, we discussed briefly the motivation and key modules of a framework for estimating capital against event risk.

The Finance Minister, in his budget speech for 2015-16, has announced a new defined benefit pension scheme – Atal Pension Yojanai (APY, henceforth) – for unorganised sector workers who are not covered under any statutory social security scheme.

Diversification is an effective risk mitigation strategy for portfolio risk management.

Generalized Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
to Estimate Diversity Score of a Portfolio
across Multiple Correlated Sectors

The NSE-IFF Financial Deepening and Household Finance Research Initiative is very pleased to announce its final set of proposals selected for funding in this round.

The RBI published the final Charter of Customer Rights for banking customers in December 2014.

The Master Card Foundation recently organised a Symposium on Financial Inclusion that explored the theme of “Clients at the Center” by focusing on the “Client Journey”.