The Micro-insurance sector has been often in the news in the recent times. This is primarily because of IRDA’s recent recommendation towards an “everything product” approach for which the Life Insurance Council has been asked to prepare a blue-print.

This paper makes a case for the concerted development of small and medium cities as the key focus in the strategy to ensure sustainable urbanisation in India.

Leading development bank, FMO has invested in the latest NCD (non-convertible debentures) issuance of IFMR Capital. The issuance totalled INR 160 million and was rated A- by ICRA.

While the corporate insolvency framework has seen a lot of activity, the individual insolvency framework in India consists merely of a pair of statutes legislated in the British era which today lie dormant for all practical purposes.

In this fifth post under the series “Understanding the KGFS Customer” we present the analysis of data regarding the income of customers enrolled with KGFS.

IFMR Finance Foundation is working on understanding the regime for corporate and individual insolvency in India, as part of our mandate on financial systems design. We will be regularly showcasing our learnings on this front as a part of this new blog series called “Insolvency in India”. We start off by looking at the legal framework for corporate insolvency in India.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) just released its new securitisation guidelines for standard assets via a notification.

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has published a new paper titled "The Pursuit of Complete Financial Inclusion: The KGFS Model in India"

The Indian microfinance sector has seen a series of rapid changes in the past decade.