Suitability and Disclosure: The case of Australia

Subsequent to our earlier post in the Consumer Protection series, this post covers conduct and disclosure obligations of Australian Financial Services (AFS) License holders for provision of advice to…

Australia’s Regulatory Principles and the Licensing of providers

Continuing on our series on ‘Consumer Protection’, we will take a look at how consumer protection has found its place within the regulatory architecture of select countries, namely Australia…

IFMR Rural Channels launches Thenaaru KGFS

Close on the heels of launching its fourth KGFS, IFMR Rural Channels launched its fifth KGFS yesterday – Thenaaru Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services (KGFS) which would be serving the…

A Randomized Evaluation of Financial Services in Tamil Nadu

A recent report titled “Latest findings from Randomized Evaluations of microfinance” by Jonathan Bauchet, Cristoball Marshall, Laura Starita, Jeanette Thomas and Anna Yalouris, throws a lot of interesting insights…

Financial Engineering for Low Income Households

IIM Ahmedabad recently interviewed Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor for their publication ‘The Efficient Frontier’. The publication was recently rebranded to mark the institute’s Golden Jubilee year.