Growth Week – Ideas for Growth: Macro Finance
The International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics (LSE) is an institution that offers independent advice on economic growth to governments of developing countries.
IFMR Financial Systems Design Conference 2011 – Risk Aggregation
The IFMR Financial Systems Design Conference 2011 was organised into three main sessions for discussions – Origination, Risk Transmission and Risk Aggregation.
IFMR Financial Systems Design Conference 2011
The first IFMR Conference on Financial Systems Design was held at our office in Chennai on Aug 5-6, 2011. The objective of the conference was to engage in an…
Dr Viral Acharya on aggregation of risks in a financial system
In a conversation with Nachiket Mor and Bindu Ananth, Dr. Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business, speaks on issues centring around…
The rich invest in the poor
The recent securitisation transaction completed by IFMR Capital was a landmark deal in the microfinance sector. It was a Rs. 108 Mn rated securitisation transaction backed by microloans originated…
Funding options for non-bank originators – Private Equity
For any non-bank originator it is absolutely critical to raise large sums of risk capital on a continuing basis. While this need is primarily to meet capital adequacy requirements,
IFMR Capital structures microloan securitisation with Ujjivan
IFMR Capital recently structured and arranged a Rs. 173 million securitisation transaction. The transaction is backed by 21,170 microloans originated by one of the leading MFIs in the country,…
Historical data, vital to design
Households slip into “bad states of the world” due to several reasons, including accident or death of the earning member, medical emergency of a family member, poor or excess…
Funding options for non-bank originators – Mezzanine instruments
Recently, we flagged off our new blog series on financing options for non-bank originators with our first post that explored debt-funding options in some depth.
Managing risks in microfinance
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) essentially act as financial intermediaries, bridging the gap between mainstream financial institutions and low-income households for a specific type of credit need that is short-term and…