Despite the best efforts by policy makers and state-owned banks, the last mile problem has been an insurmountable hurdle in the way of financial inclusion for the poor. Bindu Ananth, Chair - IFMR Trust & IFMR Holdings, busts some common fallacies about financial inclusion.

As part of Business Today Magazine’s 25th Anniversary issue, Bindu Ananth has written an article in the latest edition of the magazine.

In our final post of the year we put together the Top-5 game changers of 2015.

M-FIN and Sa-Dhan, two key Self-Regulatory Organisations (SROs) of the microfinance industry jointly released their revised Code of Conduct for the Microfinance Industry in December 2015.

The All-India Debt and Investment Survey (AIDIS) is a survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) at decennial intervals through household interviews from a random, nationally representative sample of households

The shift towards suitability frameworks for consumer protection in India is a bold and important enhancement of existing financial consumer protection efforts.

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, RBI took a major leap forward and set up a new Financial Stability Unit in 2009 specifically focusing on the measures to be taken for assessment and evaluation of financial system stability in the country

The previous blog post in this series had presented some insights from our review of case law relating to financial products and services.

In the previous post we had covered the keynote address delivered by Mr. Nandan Nilekani at the IFMR Holdings Event, 2015.

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.