The success of an organization greatly depends on its Human Resource (HR), where HR plays a vital role in maintaining and enhancing its human capital.

While endeavouring to deepen financial access in India, the enormity of the problem, that is, the vast number of financially excluded people to be reached, has been emphasised time and again.

Professor Ajay Shah of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) visited IFMR recently, where he spoke about ‘Financial Distribution with Consumer Protection and Scalability’ at IFMR Business School and also visited Pudhuaaru KGFS, Thanjavur.

On January 29, 2010, IFMR hosted a seminar by renowned social worker and Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Padmashri Deep Joshi.

Last week a group of microfinance practitioners and investors gathered in New York City at the 2nd Microfinance Summit to discuss recent developments within the microfinance industry, as well as opportunities in providing healthcare, clean water, and renewable energy to low-income populations.

Recently, a profiling exercise was carried out at the Sanjay Nagar Branch of Pudhuaaru KGFS to understand and estimate the size of the economic and financial system of the branch service area.

Prof. Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University, visited Pudhuaaru KGFS this week. His work has had considerable influence on the way we think about access to finance, shaping some of the key ideas behind the KGFS model.

In a first transaction of its kind, IFMR Capital concluded a multi-originator securitisation of micro-loans originated by four  microfinance institutions in India.

Last week I attended a conference titled “Microfinance: Translating Research into Practice”, hosted by the Centre for Microfinance in partnership with the College of Agricultural Banking (CAB) in Pune.

Dr. Nachiket Mor gave a presentation talk at the India-Europe workshop on Innovation and Partnership on 14th Dec 09.