Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

March 14, 2018 | Dvara Research

As part of the Emerging Markets Finance Conference, 2017, organised by IGIDR in collaboration with Vanderbilt Law School, Bindu Ananth joined a discussion on India’s new personal insolvency and bankruptcy regime, along with Prof. Adam Feibelman of Tulane University Law School and Renuka Sane, Associate Professor, NIPFP.

By Dvara Research
March 9, 2018 | The Hindu Business Line

Future financial services providers will be akin to general physicians, who bear great responsibility for the health of their patients. Such a prescriptive approach would minimise instances of unsuitable advice.

By Deepti George, Shilpa Sathe
March 9, 2018 | Dvara Research

This blog post does two things. It explains why data privacy matters and why global developments – particularly changes in the law – are going to make it matter.

March 8, 2018 | Dvara Research

To mark the occasion we share below a few publications/reports that throw light on the gender-finance equation. If you have a favourite paper or publication that needs to be on this list, please do share in the comments section below.

March 5, 2018 | Dvara Research

India has a rich and diverse payments infrastructure. The eco-system of Payment Service Providers (PSPs) has undergone a rapid evolution in India over the recent past with the advances in technology and yet, there still exists hurdles to enabling ubiquitous access to payment services.

February 18, 2018 | Dvara Research

I invite you to take a look at the short videos below to get a glimpse of what the new brands mean. We look forward to a new decade of impact and innovations.

By Dvara Research
February 7, 2018 | Dvara Research

In this document, we present our responses to the public consultation on the White Paper which is based on our broader approach on data protection. This approach looks past a consent-led approach to data protection, and seeks to embed a bundle of rights for all individuals with respect to their personally identifiable data that apply even where consent has been validly obtained for data collection

By The Future Of Finance Initiative
February 7, 2018 | Dvara Research

Last week, the period for the public to respond with comments on the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India (the White Paper) ended. The document was released on 27 November 2017 by the Committee of Experts to deliberate on a data protection framework for the country, established by the Ministry for Electronics […]

By Dvara Research
January 27, 2018 | Hindustan Times

These avoidable implementation challenges on account of Aadhaar can be significantly resolved by a clear legal articulation of permissible uses of Aadhaar through suitable amendments.