Having covered the fundamentals of debt finance and the basics of securitisation and securitisation structures as well as the roles of the different parties to the transaction on the first day

Marking a new phase in the evolution of the microfinance market in India, Bandhan (an MFI headquartered in West Bengal) reduced its interest rate to an unprecedented 19%.

29th April marked an extremely informative and stimulating start to this year’s MFI workshop on ‘New Sources of Financing for Microfinance Institutions’.

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.

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.

When you hold that cup of freshly brewed coffee where does that aromatic smell take you? What does that coffee remind you of?  You might not be alone when you say ‘Well, just coffee’; but there is more to it than you might think.

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.

Given the scope of Microfinance in India, it is imperative to measure access and impact of finance to understand its benefits and challenges.

A training exercise was undertaken recently for the wealth managers (WMs) of Sahastradhara KGFS (from 18th to 20th March) and Dhanei KGFS (from 25th to 27th March).

For a company of Google’s stature that has reached the scale it has, and still regard itself to be an Internet start-up is both admirable and inspiring.