CredRight, which focuses on financial inclusion by providing much-needed institutional debt capital to MSMEs in Tier 3 and 4 towns, will ut...

As many as 1,000 people from 19 districts in Vidarbha, Marathwada and south Maharashtra will be given 50% subsidy to buy country chicken.

Criminal case to be filed against unlicensed moneylenders who intimidate tribals for money

The target community here are the daily wage earners working in Rubber Estates and cashew factories, and farmers.

P2P lending enables individuals to borrow and lend money through online platforms that match lenders with borrowers, and was expected to di...

Proposal to partially shift the Yeshwanthpur APMC yard suffers thanks to a trader lobby with political muscle.

PM Modi is likely to be in campaign mode till the 2019 polls, but there is only one way for reforms — forward.

There are nearly 17.5 lakh small and marginal farmers in the state who have taken loans of nearly Rs 2,150 crore in the last two years from...

Devendra Fadnavis was on October 31 sworn in as chief minister of the state where BJP formed its government for the first time without an a...

Disclosing his plan to enter the banking arena as its mainstay, Shriram Capital Chairman said the proposed lender's book will be devoted to...

Exciting proposals to overhaul the financial services sector are on the table - implement them.

At the outset, it is worthwhile noting some factual statements in RBI reports in regard to micro finance activities.

Microfinance has been a boon for the rural poor but is slated to disappear, with the coming advance of formal finance.

Banks have failed to provide that kind of access. According to the RBI, 292 of 626 districts were underbanked.

KC Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor of RBI, talks about regulation of the microfinance sector and on universalising financial services.

Armed with deposit envelopes and a pen, Akkatai doesn't even cast a passing glance at the men looking for sex in the red light district of ...

The committee on financial sector reforms has proposed four key measures to further financial inclusion that merit serious consideration.