This is the third post in our blog series on Long Term Debt Markets (LTDM) in the Indian context. In this post (and the next one) we discuss the evolution of LTDM in South Africa and identify key lessons for the Indian debt markets.

The principal goal of this conference series is to create a platform to discuss issues of significant importance to the future of the Indian financial system that interested researchers in India as well as elsewhere can start to explore and present solutions for.

As part of our series of posts on Consumer Protection, in this post Deepti George of IFMR Finance Foundation interviews Denise Dias of CGAP. Denise specializes in prudential banking and microfinance regulation and supervision, and shares valuable insights with us in this interview.

Over the last quarter, ICRA has upgraded the ratings on numerous securitisation transactions backed my micro-loan receivables, structured and arranged by IFMR Capital.

On August 03, 2012, RBI came out with its ‘Non Banking Financial Company-Micro Finance Institutions’ (NBFC-MFIs) – Directions – Modifications’1 via which RBI has made changes to Directions issued on December 02, 2011 in light of representations received by it from NBFCs functioning in the microfinance sector.

In a first of its kind large scale partial guarantee program for microfinance institutions in India, Asian Development Bank (“ADB”) has provided partial credit guarantee to loans to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in India.

This is the second post in our blog series on Long Term Debt Markets in the Indian context.

As part of the Consumer Protection series, below is the concluding part of the three-part interview with Kate McKee of CGAP.

Below is the second part of the three part interview with Kate McKee of CGAP. The interview is part of our Consumer Protection series.