Author Archives: Srichander Ramaswamy

From Unified Payment Interface to Unified Lending Interface: India’s Digital Journey Towards Financial Inclusion

The financial inclusion journey involves many legs: empowering citizens with a digital identity to open bank accounts; building a digital public infrastructure to facilitate low-cost interoperable payment services; and creating a technology platform to facilitate efficient delivery of frictionless credit. This blog takes readers through this journey in India.

Should Green Bonds be Structured to Safeguard Assets they Back in Bankruptcy?

Introduction Every investment activity whether “brown” or “green” requires funding. Such funding is typically obtained through bank loans or by issuing securities in the capital markets. The interest and principal amounts borrowed are repaid using the cash flows generated by the investment activities. But when these cash flows are insufficient to meet repayment obligations on […]