Digitising Payment in our backyard
There has been a strong national imperative to move towards a “cashless” economy in India. Despite a substantive impetus from public and private sector forces, the adoption and use…
Reorienting Financial Well-being through FWR 2.0
For an institution focussed on delivering high-quality and customised financial services to low-income households, the Wealth Management approach has been the one of the key underlying layers that is…
Adoption of Mobile Financial Services in Thanjavur – Pudhuaaru KGFS & Qarth Technologies Pilot
Since its introduction in 2010, IMPS based mobile banking transactions have been growing month on month reaching 3.5 Million monthly transactions in May 2014.
Digital Currencies and the Larger Questions they Raise
Digital currencies have generated substantial curiosity over the last year, particularly post the favourable1 hearing that Bitcoin, a prominent digital currency2, received at the US Capitol hill in November…
Leveraging Mapping for the Rural Economy – Part 2
This post is a follow-up to our earlier post which briefed about the mapping exercise that IFMR Rural Finance had undertaken to study the service area of a KGFS…
Leveraging Mapping for the Rural Economy – Part 1
How do spatial parameters like distance and accessibility impact financial inclusion? How can an organisation striving to achieve financial inclusion locate itself strategically such that it becomes truly inclusive…
Voice-based authentication for financial inclusion
Suyash Rai of IFMR Finance Foundation interviews Umesh Sachdev, CEO, Uniphore Software Systems about the company and its role in providing voice as a medium of authentication when it…
Crowdsourcing testimonies from the field
Sometimes adversity is the perfect catalyst to invent what was unforeseeable in normal circumstances.
Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects submits report
The Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP), which was set up by the Ministry of Finance in June 2010 under the chairmanship of UIDAI Chairman, Nandan Nilekani, recently…
Technology to the rescue of MFIs
[Artoo Slate is a software solution designed for microfinance field staff that takes the entire process of data collection and loan disbursement online.