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.
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.
Workshop on Measuring Access to Finance
Given the scope of Microfinance in India, it is imperative to measure access and impact of finance to understand its benefits and challenges.
Workshop on Microfinance and Rural Development
At a recent workshop on “Microfinance and Rural Development” held at Ramjas College, Delhi, Nitin Chaudhary from IFMR Rural Finance had the opportunity to chair one of the sessions that was attended by students of Ramjas College and St. Stephen’s College.
Exchanging wealth management notes with Professor Merton
Financial literacy is like asking a customer who is being wheeled into a surgery “Do you want 14 sutures or 17?” With this comment, we discovered common ground with Prof. Robert Merton, Nobel Prize winning Economist!
Blue Print for Commercial Banks to Deepen Financial Access
IFMR Finance Foundation has come out with a comprehensive manual with a detailed blueprint for commercial banks to deepen financial access in a viable manner using the Business Correspondents (BC) and Business Facilitators (BF).
Capital at the ACCESS ‘Investor Readiness Workshop’
On the 8th and 9th of February 2010, Access Microfinance Alliance (AmFA), one of the largest small MFI networks in India, organized ‘ACCESS INVEST’, an investor readiness workshop for its members.
