Are Infrastructure Bonds the Next Big Thing in Infrastructure Financing?
The region’s infrastructure bond market is still at a nascent stage.
Demonetization Brought Out the Best in Indian Microfinance Clients
Events unfolded quite differently to expectations, and showed the poor's resilience.
Microfinance Institutions Must Enhance Client Protection to Better Serve Clients
Microfinance institutions must ensure that clients are treated in a fair and transparent manner, and are able to fulfill their debt.
A Global ID System That Could Revolutionize Finance
GLEIF will be a critically important contribution to help realize many of the current developments in fintech, and to spur more growth in cross-border trade.
Exercise Equity Market: A Financing Model to Vitalize SMEs
Let's create a market mechanism that incubates 'smaller but growing' firms that will eventually tap the exchange market.
Internet-Only Banks to Change Financial Landscape in Korea, and Beyond
The entry of fully digitalized banks can help improve financial services, and support the emergence of innovative financial solutions to benefit MSMEs in developing Asia.
Digital Finance Successes, Failures Provide Lessons for Microfinance
If issues of trust, affordability, and reliability are addressed, digital financial services can help extend financial services to all.
Direct Benefit Transfer – A Game-Changer for Financial Inclusion in India
With the right technology, $60 billion in welfare payments can be seamlessly and directly credited into the bank accounts of all beneficiaries in India.
What Drives Asian Bond Yields? Inflation, Both CPI and PPI
Our empirical evidence for 9 Asian economies indicates that both CPI and PPI inflation have a direct effect on bond yields, although each matter differently depending on the country.
Microloans Start Flowing to Quake-Affected Families in Nepal
Microfinance provides post-disaster relief and support quickly, reduces the cost of recovery financing, reduces aid dependency, and builds long-term resilience.