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 aggregation of risks in a financial system, with an emphasis on those particularly relevant to the Indian financial system.

ICRA and CRISIL have upgraded the ratings assigned to the Senior Pass Through Certificates (PTCs) and Assignee Payouts pertaining to three transactions backed by micro loan pool receivables originated by Grama Vidiyal Microfinance Limited (GVMFL) and two transactions backed by micro loan pool receivables

Future financial services providers will be akin to general physicians, who bear great responsibility for the health of their patients. Such a prescriptive approach would minimise instances of unsuitable advice.

As we enter the second half of 2011, here are our Editor’s pick from the IFMR Blog over the past 6 months.

Remittances are the second largest source of funding for developing countries, contributing more than capital flows and development assistance.

In a stylised sense, there are two fundamentally different perspectives for analysis of financial systems.

A common refrain that one hears in the context of financial services for low-income households is the importance of “keeping it simple”.

Sahastradhara KGFS inaugurated its new Headquarters in Dehradun on Saturday.

[This post is the fourth in a series on the theme “regulatory architecture of India’s financial system”. IFMR Blog will continue to feature this theme till the third week of June.]

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 by Grama Vidiyal Micro Finance Limited.