“Wealth Management is the right approach”
“In conversation” is a new series of Q & A blogs from the IFMR Blog team where we ask questions on behalf of our readers to leading personalities in the field of financial inclusion.
A higher education loan product for Thanjavur district
At the beginning of the summer, the six of us Stanford summer interns set out to determine, through field interviews and market research
The world’s poor need safe places to save
Did you know that only half the adult population in the world has access to a bank account? More than 3 billion people don’t have access to savings accounts, and they are predominantly the world’s poorest people who live on less than US$2 per day.
Microloan securitisation ratings upgrades: High performance of securitised pools reaffirmed
Recently, CRISIL has revised the rating of the senior and subordinated securities issued by Pioneer III – a pool securitised by Grameen Financial Services – to AAA(so) and A(so) respectively.
Livestock insurance: Learning from India and the world
At a recent Spark session, Anupama Sharma from the Centre for Insurance and Risk Management (CIRM) spoke about the major lessons livestock insurance has handed out. We bring you the highlights:
NPS Lite: Securing Old Age Income
The announcement of National Pension System (NPS) Lite, a pension plan geared towards economically disadvantaged populations, brings hope for much needed money during non-productive years
MRAP: Bridging the gap between research and practice
Fundamental to the growth and development of an industry is the research that aids its practice, especially in the context of microfinance in India.
‘For-Profit’ companies as Business Correspondents?
The Reserve Bank of India has opened a discussion in its website to see if there is a case for allowing banks to engage ‘for-profit’ companies as well as NBFCs as their Business Correspondents.
Stamps, savings, microloans and more…
India Post through the decades has been an institution that has permeated the length and breadth of the country through its 155,000 branches.
Social Performance Reporting – Should organisations evaluate themselves?
A lending institution in the inclusive-finance space that is for-profit and for-social good may be making multiple trade-offs where either profit or social good takes the backseat.
