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Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) is the largest social security programme in the world but...

Eight NBFC-MFIs received ‘in-principle’approval from RBI to set up SFBs. However, a few big NBFC...

Mobile insurance emerged in India way back in 1997. As many as four telecom operators launched mobil...

The IFN discusses some of the main findings from the costing study done on 4 BCNMs in India. As part...

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The second note in the series of publications on Small Finance Banks, the IFN titled “Small Financ...

First in the series of publications on Small Finance Banks, the IFN titled “Small Finance Banks �...

Taking cue from the earlier Focus note on need of insurance for contractual MSE workers of India, a ...

In its current form at least, the success of digital finance is dependent on front line agents - to ...

GSMA’s State of the Industry Report 2014 tells us there are 255 mobile money services in operation...

Weak Bank Mitr networks (with a reported annual attrition rate of 25-35%) in India could severely un...

MicroSave’s insurance expert, Premasis Mukherjee presented a session on mobile insurance distribut...

Insurance delivery through mobile phones and agent banking channel has started to excite the insuran...

Pacific Microfinance Week, is an event hosted by Microfinance Pacifika Network (MFPN) and the Founda...

This presentation focuses on the need and enablers of financial inclusion, business models and the c...

This presentation covers the following topics- Microcredit is not microfinance; Product v. market-le...

This presentation discusses the causes of Andhra Pradesh crisis, how it all started and the possible...

Of the remaining eight provisional Payments Bank licensees, four involve mobile network operators (M...

Application Programming Interface or API, a software programme, acts as a bridge between disparate a...

Sheetal, a 41 year-old widow, is a vegetable hawker and lives by herself in Mumbai. She wanted to ex...

“Europe minus infrastructure”? This was the term that James Mwangi, CEO of Equity Group, used in...

Remittances have emerged as the most common anchor product offered by alternate banking channels, (b...

Interoperability of mobile financial services potentially offers great benefits for the wider ecosys...

One of the more debated aspects of the Mor Committee’s report on “Comprehensive Financial Servic...