As part of our series on Unemployment Support in India, this blog post explores the unemployment insurance schemes in Hungary and Poland.

This is the beginning of a series of blogs on the Municipal Finance scenario in India. In the first post we look at the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, the rationale behind it and its intentions.

How can we design a financial product for a farmer that is exactly suited to his requirement? The answer lies in understanding the utilisation of the product.

Nachiket Mor and Bindu Ananth were invited by Columbia University to share some of our thinking and work on consumer finance in India.

The recent approach paper of the Financial Services Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) has brought a fresh focus on consumer protection.

Equitas Microfinance India (formerly Singhivi Investment & Finance), one of the country’s leading microfinance companies, recently concluded a large securitisation deal totalling INR 78.95 crores. ‘Zeus IFMR Capital 2012’, a special purpose vehicle created for the transaction has issued two tranches of PTCs, the senior of which was rated A (SO) and the junior BBB (SO) by CRISIL

This is the first post in the Unemployment Support in India series. In this series, we will explore the unemployment support mechanisms in India today;

Our earlier post covered the second approach to consumer protection that was discussed in the IFMR Financial Systems Design Conference 2012. This post carries details of the third session that discussed a framework for consumer protection based on the principle of ‘Suitability’.

Our earlier post covered the first of the three approaches to consumer protection that were discussed in the IFMR Financial Systems Design Conference 2012.

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