CIFD to launch ‘Pregnancy Financing’ product
Childbirth ushers with it a ray of hope and joy for the family. Pregnancy, birth and motherhood, in an environment that respects women, can powerfully affirm women’s rights and…
Correspondent Banking in Brazil
Olympia A. De Castro from IFMR Capital gave us an insight on the correspondent banking model in Brazil that led to some interesting comparison debates with the Indian model.
The Local Touch: Financial Inclusion – ET Article
With a vast majority of the Indian population living in the rural hinterland, its economy and growth are linked to developmental efforts. Crucial to this is in ensuring that…
Initiating local public-private dialogue to better policymaking
Understanding and channelizing local issues at the grassroots level to policy makers at both regional and national level is both challenging and vital.
The Fundamental Premise of Securitisation: The Microfinance Case Study
In a recent post, Daniel Rozas and Vinod Kothari have argued that microfinance securitisation does not, in reality, separate ‘pool risk’ from ‘originator risk’ and hence should not be…
Professor T. N. Srinivasan on the importance of integrating finance, management and development
Considered alone, development, finance and management is each a vast field, albeit with substantial overlaps among them.
RBI Draft Guidelines on Securitisation: Balancing growth and stability
Securitisation of assets by NBFCs came under regulatory purview with draft guidelines being put on the RBI website on June 3rd.
Unearthing the real issues in microfinance: Quality
Sucharita Mukherjee and Kirthi Rao talk about the importance of quality of underwriting standards in microfinance institutions. This is the first in a series of articles by the authors…
IFMR Capital featured in Financial Chronicle
There was an article published an Financial Chronicle about IFMR Capital and its future plans.
Field visit to FINO customer service points
Business Correspondence (BC) model or the third-party agent banking was launched in 2006 in India, with the intent of increasing the ambit of the formal banking sector. Since its…