Specialist
Nitish worked at MSC as a Senior Manager in the Inclusive Finance and Banking domain.
Study on adoption of cashlite among MFIs in India
MicroSave, with support from MFIN, conducted this study to capture the experience of cash-lite/cashless models adopted by MFIs in India. The report identifies ways to accelerate the adoption of cash-lite models.
Aug 31, 2017
Bhavana Srivastava, Nitish Narain, Saloni Tandon, Charvi Gandotra and Arpan Sahni
Aug 31, 2017
Bhavana Srivastava, Nitish Narain, Saloni Tandon, Charvi Gandotra and Arpan Sahni
Small Finance Banks – Are You Ready? The Opportunities and Challenges
The opportunities and challenges form Small Finance Banks is enormous in the financial inclusion market in India. The authors have elaborately discussed some of them.
Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Should Microfinance Go Digital?
The blog highlights the benefits of the new partnership emerging between digital financial service providers and microfinance institutions to address the challenges of financial access among the un/under banked populations globally.
May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015
Alternative financial education approach to design effective financial education/capability programmes
MicroSave implemented an Alternative Financial Education programme (AFE) at one of the biggest MFIs in north India. The tool based was based on the principle of product-led financial education, the programme delivery was embedded in the existing operational structure of the MFI, and the tools were designed using SWITCH behavior change framework.
Jan 16, 2015
Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh, Nishant Kumar and Nitish Narain
Jan 16, 2015
Akhand Tiwari, Akhilesh Singh, Nishant Kumar and Nitish Narain
How to make financial education better… maybe
Is financial education or financial literacy a branding problem? Here the authors suggest some alternative ways to make FE more meaningful and useful for end clients.
Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014
The Essential Ingredients of an Effective Financial Education Programme
In this Briefing Note we discuss areas that we think were critical to the design of the financial education programme – the essential ingredients.
Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014
Repositioning as a Third Generation Microfinance Institution Corporate Branding at ASKI
This Note presents the case of ASKI, a development NGO in the Philippines, which grappled with these issues and how it developed a corporate branding strategy.
Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014