Bringing mutual funds and small MFIs together
What does it take to make a mutual fund invest in small MFIs? The one team that would be able to answer this question would be the IFMR Capital MOSEC team that has just concluded the second multi-originator microloan securitization.
Taking agriculture finance to small farmers
What would it take to foster a measurable increase in the availability of agriculture finance to small and medium farmers?
Thoughts from the Chicago Microfinance Conference
On May 7th 2010, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University hosted the sixth annual Chicago Microfinance Conference.
Training the SMS way
The vertical take-off of the mobile services industry in India in the past few years has been aided by an aggressive pricing strategy adopted by both handset manufacturers and mobile service providers alike.
Redesigning the Wealth Management Process
The Wealth Management Cross-Functional Team (comprising Amit Shah, Deepti George, Shilpa Sathe, Nitin Chaudhary, Suyash Rai, Bhaskar, Chandrachudan, Viji, Anil, Dave and Bindu)
Chit Fund Research – The way forward
After the successful completion of the first phase of our Chit Fund Research, Small Enterprise Finance Centre (SEFC) is entering into the second phase that involves 3 year long, rigorous, on-the-ground experiments.
Risk Management ASP for Small Banks
IFMR Research’s Centre for Advanced Financial Studies (CAFS) has developed a portal that lets Financial Institutions compute their Value at Risk (VaR).
A ‘Tappawala’ story
An article in The Hindu a few months back by P. Sainath stated that migrants from Ganjam staying in Surat send home Rs.400 crore a year.
CGAP Interview – Bindu on Financial Inclusion
Jim Rosenberg, Communications Officer for the CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) Technology Program, recently interviewed Bindu about how the financial system in India might be configured to deliver complete financial service access.
Financial Inclusion in the Hills
Including the poor into the formal financial system has been hard despite numerous and sustained efforts. The difficulty in achieving inclusion attains a whole new meaning in hills and mountainous regions where populations are sparse and connectivity is extremely low.
