Digitising Payment in our backyard
There has been a strong national imperative to move towards a “cashless” economy in India[1]. Despite a substantive impetus from public and private sector forces, the adoption and use of digital modes of payment in the country remains paltry[
Video: Disruption in Financial Services – Mr. Nandan Nilekani
To mark the recent partnership with Accion, LeapFrog & Lok Capital to scale up our financial inclusion platform, IFMR Holdings earlier this month hosted prominent leaders from the financial services industry, partners and key investors at an event held in Mumbai.
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 2013.
The Future of Finance in India: Talwar Memorial Lecture
Mr N Vaghul, chairman emeritus of ICICI Bank, recently delivered the Talwar Memorial Lecture on the topic “The Future of Finance in India”.
UIDAI and Financial Inclusion – Unlimited Possibilities
Suyash Rai of IFMR Finance Foundation, Raghav Narayana of IFMR Rural Finance in an informal conversation with Mr. Praveen Chakravarty, who is a volunteer in the Financial Inclusion team of UIDAI.
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 comes to enabling financial inclusion.
Constructing new cash ecosystems through mobile money
This is the third of three-part series of blogs titled “Mobile money”. The authors explore and explain all about mobile banking and how it can make a difference to the rural population.
Financial inclusion needs friendlier products
Third in the series of articles in The Hindu Business Line, Puneet Gupta and Jayshree Venkatesan of IFMR Mezzanine Finance write about some of the barriers to accessing finance.
Kick-starting mobile money system with payments and transfers
This is the second of three-part series of blogs titled “Mobile money”. The authors explore and explain all about mobile banking and how it can make a difference to the rural population.
Mobile money: It’s all about marketing, branding and distribution
This is the first of three-part series of blogs titled “Mobile money”. The authors explore and explain all about mobile banking and how it can make a difference to the rural population.
