Sandeep Kumar

Assistant Manager

Sandeep Kumar is presently associated with the International Labour Organization's Impact Insurance Facility as a Social Finance Fellow. He is a financial inclusion consultant with more than six years of experience in microfinance, digital financial services, and SME finance.

Sandeep Kumar worked as an Analyst in MSC’s Inclusive Finance and Banking domain. He is a financial inclusion consultant with more than six years of experience in microfinance, digital financial services and SME finance. He is presently associated with the International Labour Organization's Impact Insurance Facility as a Social Finance Fellow. Sandeep provides business advisory services to financial and non-financial institutions. His work focuses on research design, data analysis, project monitoring, impact evaluation, SME (small and medium enterprises) finance, value chain analysis, and business development. He has worked on long and short-term projects supported by community-based institutions and international funding agencies across South-east Asia and Africa.

Posts by Sandeep Kumar

What is statistical credit scoring?

The ability of Financial Institutions (FI) to effectively underwrite microenterprise loans depends on accurate assessment of the loan applicant’s ability and intent to repay. Traditionally, financial institutions use their past knowledge and experience of financing microenterprises to carry out such assessments.

Let There Be Light – Direct Benefit Transfer in Kerosene

This focus note traces a qualitative research that MicroSave conducted to assess the consumption pattern and dependence on kerosene in India at the time of the study.