The Finance Minister, in his budget speech for 2015-16, has announced a new defined benefit pension scheme - Atal Pension Yojanai (APY, henceforth) - for unorganised sector workers who are not covered under any statutory social security scheme.

This is the first blog post in the KGFS (Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services) Model Incubation series.

Diversification is an effective risk mitigation strategy for portfolio risk management.

Generalized Herfindahl-Hirschman Index to Estimate Diversity Score of a Portfolio across Multiple Correlated Sectors

The NSE-IFF Financial Deepening and Household Finance Research Initiative is very pleased to announce its final set of proposals selected for funding in this round.

The RBI published the final Charter of Customer Rights for banking customers in December 2014.

The Master Card Foundation recently organised a Symposium on Financial Inclusion that explored the theme of "Clients at the Center" by focusing on the "Client Journey".

85% of our workforce employed in the unorganised sector workforce who do not have access to any formal pensions, the Government of India (GoI) introduced the National Pension System-Swavalamban (NPS-S) in 2010. This scheme was implemented with of the objective of encouraging citizens engaged in the unorganised sector to save towards retirement.

We often dismiss stories, saying "anecdotes aren't data," but data enriched with anecdotes can be far more effective than just data in changing minds and getting people to pay attention.

This post is the first post in a new blog series that would delve and deliberate on different aspects of designing a framework that would enable a credit institution to identify the exposure to extreme events and to estimate the potential losses due to such events.