Background: Banks NBFCs and other Financial Institutions are handling an ever-increasing volume of data including personally identifiable information of individual customers. This requires dynamic strategies and processes to ensure data privaRead More

Background: The concept of money has evolved over time from commodity to metallic / paper currency and now digital currency. The basic tenet of money performing the primary functions of medium of exchange a unit of account and a store of valuRead More

Background: Cyber risk is today a significant business risk given the increasing use of technology by financial intermediaries.   Cyber-attacks can disrupt critical financial operations leading to loss of confidence in the financiaRead More

Background: In recent years most economies have faced increasing uncertainties in the macroeconomic landscape. While policy normalization is far from complete resolute actions by policy makers have contained financial stability concerns to aRead More

CAFRAL and Warwick Business School UK are jointly organizing a workshop on "Economic and Financial Barriers and Opportunities to the Green Transition in Emerging Economies." This workshop aims to shed light on the challenges and pRead More

Background: A comprehensive KYC-AML framework is a bulwark to prevent the financial system from being used in money laundering and other unlawful activities. Banks face increased regulatory expectations and enforcement of extant regulations. RRead More

Background: Asset quality in banks has important implications for the stability of the overall financial system. Management of Stressed Assets has always been a critical component of the credit function in banks following implementation of InRead More

Background: The smooth functioning of any financial intermediation business depends as much upon a healthy bottom line as upon the robustness of its compliance function. The role of compliance function in banks is becoming more complex and demRead More

Background: Increasing incidences of financial frauds in the loan portfolio of banks both in terms of number and value continues to be a major concern. Additionally digital and cyber frauds have also seen a spurt. Besides financial loss implRead More

Background: Climate Change and associated risks are a stark reality and the need for an appropriate framework to identify assess and manage financial risks arising out of climate risk has become an imperative. India has committed to generate Read More

Background: Protection of customer interest continues to be a top priority of the Regulator and the Ombudsman Scheme is a significant measure for redressal of grievances of customers in banks NBFCs and PSOs. Tremendous increase in the networkRead More

Background: The Board of Directors is responsible for the effective governance of Banks Financial Institutions (FIs) and NBFCs. The role of directors is under increasing scrutiny domestically and internationally particularly in the event ofRead More

Background: While the core function of the Treasury remains to ensure that the assets continue to match the liabilities while ensuring adequate income its role has evolved from being a centralized liquidity management function to that of a coRead More

Background: Banking channels could be utilised intentionally or unintentionally by criminal elements for channelizing funds for unscrupulous activities. In order to ensure that adequate controls are in place regulated entities (REs) have beRead More

Background: The financial system in India has one of the largest outreach and mechanisms for channeling delivery of financial services. While Banks / NBFCs have been extending their services with innovative use of technology and customized proRead More

CAFRAL co-hosted an International Research Conference on FinTech: Innovation Inclusion and Regulation with IIM Ahmedabad on March 10th and 11th 2023 at the IIM-A campus. The event had multiple high quality domestic and international paper submiRead More

Background:   Digital lending has been steadily growing in volume over the years along with increasing digitalization driven by fintechs NBFCs & banks. The pandemic provided further impetus to this growth. Given the extent of mRead More

Background: Cyber-attacks on banks and financial institutions are becoming increasingly pervasive and sophisticated. Cyber risk is today a business risk of critical nature impacting financial assets business continuity trust and reputation. Read More

Background:   The HR landscape has been changing rapidly after the onslaught of Covid-19 and in the wake of unprecedented economic and financial sector developments impacting the future of work. The pandemic has tremendously impactedRead More

Background: The Board of Directors (BoD) is responsible for effective governance of Banks Financial Institutions (FIs) and NBFCs. Strategic oversight by the BoD on assurance functions besides the ability to seek / extract vital information iRead More

Background:   Increasing incidences of financial frauds in the loan portfolio of banks both in terms of number and value have been a major concern. Additionally frauds on account of small value card / internet based transactions hRead More

CAFRAL is hosting a conference on “CAFRAL Annual Conference: The Financial System and Macroeconomy in Emerging Economies” on December 12-13 2022 in Mumbai. The conference will feature academic presentations on topics such as macroeRead More

Background:  India is predicted to be one of the fastest growing economies in coming years and it is already the fifth largest economy based on quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) numbers in current dollars for the period ending DecembRead More

Background: Climate change is becoming an increasingly powerful driver of risk for banks and other financial institutions. It must be noted that climate risk is a transverse risk which means that it will manifest itself in existing risks facinRead More

Background:  Agro-MSMEs operating in the intersection of agriculture sector and MSME sector form many commercially viable and socially impactful value chains. These value chains can seamlessly link the rural with the urban sector. Again Read More

Background: Advanced technologies (ATs) such as Artificial Intelligence Distributed Ledger Technology / Blockchain Technology Machine Learning and Data Analytics etc. are transforming the nature of financial intermediation in a very fundamenRead More

Background: During the last several years Digital Lending (DL) has been steadily growing in volume driven by NBFCs FinTechs and Banks. The circumstances of the pandemic provided significant momentum to that growth. The most innovative segRead More

Background: The smooth continuity of any financial intermediation business is dependent upon a healthy bottom-line and sound compliance risk management. In fact in large measure compliance failures and consequent regulatory penalties which haRead More

Background: A Platform Economy (PE) also known as digital platform economy (DPE) has been evolving for quite some time. A platform or a Platform Technology (PT) which is actually a group of technologies  used as a base or infrastructure Read More

Background:   Regulated Entities (RE) must have a robust efficient and sound operating framework to know their customers. The framework universally known as Know Your Customer (KYC) framework must be strictly compliant with extant rRead More

Background: Individual financial institutions face significant exposure to cyber risk as financial intermediation is information technology-intensive and intermediaries are highly interconnected inter alia through payment systems. Therefore Read More

Background: Climate Change and the risk it entails is no more an uncertainty but a stark reality and therefore the threat posed by climate change must be addressed as a core economic and financial system challenge by all stakeholders with urRead More

Background: Post pandemic most economies face unique policy challenges in the midst of increasing uncertainties in the macroeconomic landscape. Pandemic outbreak in major links of global supply chains have resulted in lingering supply disruptRead More

Background: In recent times there have been several regulatory changes relating to banks’ operations in Indian financial markets. Reserve Bank of India (Credit Derivatives) Directions 2022 have been issued relating to credit derivativeRead More

Background: Advanced Technologies are increasingly redefining the structure function organisational culture and operating environment of financial intermediaries. While strategically calibrated adoption of advanced technologies could on theRead More

Background:    The Board of Directors (BOD) is ultimately responsible for effective governance of a Bank or a Financial Institution. Primarily the BOD builds its capability to govern through three streams of assurance functions (riskRead More

Background: Incidences of Financial Frauds in large loan accounts with huge financial loss implications have sharply risen in recent times. Digital & cyber frauds are also on the rise with increasing use of technology. Money laundering and Read More

Background:  The Internal Audit function provides assurance to the executive management and the Board of Directors that governance processes are sound and that existing internal controls are adequate to mitigate risks. However the fast chaRead More

Background: The HR landscape has been changing rapidly due to recent public health social economic and financial sector developments including the far reaching impact of the COVID 19 outbreak.  One of the worldwide surveys done by a leadRead More

Background: In recent times the NBFC sector has come under sharper regulatory focus due to several reasons. The sector has been playing an increasingly important role in the financial system contributing to nearly 20% of the total credit flowRead More

Background: Today data and analytics are arguably the most powerful enablers of business. Given that they play a crucial role in digital banking and digital transformation banks now handle an ever increasing volume of data which makes sound mRead More

Background: LIBOR transition is no more a future event. With regulatory prescriptions in place with a roadmap it is already a work in progress for banks financial institutions and corporates. Banks and other financial institutions following Read More

Background: The role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of banks and other financial intermediaries has been evolving over time to acquire increasingly enhanced status. In recent times the RBI and other financial regulators have tended to recognRead More

Background: Risk Management (RM) continues to evolve marked by bouts of advancements along with setbacks. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) resulting largely from private sector initiatives promises to potentially aid the advancement in RM anRead More

Objective: If and when the climate change risk accentuates there could be sharp and large scale deterioration in the quality of assets on the books of financial intermediaries. Immediate and sweeping regulatory changes triggered by such crisisRead More

Background: In recent years there has been increasingly heightened research deliberations and activities on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDC is no more just a concept. Now we are talking in terms of not only CBDC but CBDCs. SomeRead More

Background: Agriculture and MSME are crucial sectors of the Indian economy. In the current pandemic situation while agriculture has remained largely unaffected the MSME sector has suffered impacting output and employment. Acknowledging the rRead More

Objective: This is a unique virtual leadership program for women officers at senior and middle levels in Banks Financial Institutions and NBFCs. This program has five building blocks. One it seeks to expose the participants to key theoretical Read More

Objective Recent developments including a spate of regulatory penalties on many Banks and Financial Institutions both in India and abroad due to serious compliance breaches and RBIs new regulatory framework on compliance function in banks haveRead More

Background: Retail lending (RL) in India has seen significant changes during the pandemic. The Pandemic has in general accelerated digitization initiatives across the banking sector. Several regulatory changes have cleared the way for new playerRead More