Last week witnessed the 4th edition of the annual College of Agricultural Banking – Centre for Microfinance conference on “Microfinance: Translating Research into Practice”

Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discusses the delivery channels of financial products in a blog post for Financial Access Initiative. 

A well-functioning capital market is an important prerequisite not only for financial inclusion, but also for economic development and growth.

IFMR Capital recently structured and arranged an INR 165.5 million securitisation transaction.

Suyash Rai of IFMR Finance Foundation interviews Umesh Sachdev, CEO, Uniphore Software Systems about the company and its role in providing voice as a medium of authentication when it comes to enabling financial inclusion.

We have maintained a consistent position that despite all the imperfections of the MFI industry, the AP crisis was brought on primarily by the Ordinance that restricted the ability of MFIs to collect on the loans they had made and the misplaced perception of key stakeholders that this is an unregulated industry

With the novel objective of making Tamil Nadu the first ‘hut free State’ in the country by 2016, the state government launched a rural housing scheme called “Kalaignar Veedu Vazhangum Thittam” (KVVT) for rural areas with the objective of replacing all thatched houses in villages with robust all-weather houses over a 6-year period.

Infrastructure facilities such as clearing houses, depositories, stock exchanges, and commodity exchanges are the backbone of any financial system.

The AP microfinance crisis has raised significant questions on the design of the financial system that best ensures inclusion. The crisis has revealed deep discomfort with the regulation of Non-Deposit taking Institutions (NDI). Some observers have equated NDIs to moneylenders.

For a business operation, a great deal of what happens on the field is determined by how equipped its field managers are.