Business Wire IndiaACCESS Development Services and ACCESS–ASSIST will be hosting its
15th Inclusive Finance India Summit on 11
th and 12
th December, 2018 at The Ashok Hotel, New Delhi. The Summit will seek to build consensus on strategies and help in building a unified vision for achieving universal financial Inclusion in India. The Summit is
co-hosted by NITI Aayog.
Divided into 19 sessions, the two-day summit will bring together 100 thought leaders from across the world to discuss, deliberate and debate on the evolution of financial inclusion in the country and various trends and challenges. Key session themes include
Gains and Pains of Financial Inclusion, Performance of the New Banks established Addressing the Gender gap in Financial Inclusion: Recommendations for Policy and Practice, SHG Bank Linkage Model: Scaling up Linkages to Livelihoods, Approaches for Micro and Small Enterprise Financing: Are these Inclusive Enough? among others.
Speaking about organizing the 15
th edition of the summit,
Mr. Vipin Sharma, CEO, ACCESS Development Services, said, “
A Multitude of Government Initiatives and programmes, strengthened financial services architecture, technology integration and the emergence of new age players have all come together to provide an accelerated boost to financial inclusion in the country. The Summit as always delves deeply into all the issues and challenges and makes key recommendations for bringing true and tangible benefits from financial inclusion initiatives.”
The Summit will also witness the launch of
Inclusive Finance India Report 2018, which will track the advancement of financial inclusion in all its dimensions over the last one year.
The Summit is expected to feature eminent speakers like Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India; Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog; U S Paliwal, Former, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India; Shri. R M Mishra, Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner, Ministry of MSME; C S Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bandhan; Bhushan Kumar Sinha, JS, DFS, Ministry of Finance; Samit Ghosh, MD & CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank; Surendra Rosha, CEO, HSBC India; G R Chintala, CGM, Department of Refinance, NABARD; Yaduvendra Mathur, Add Secretary, Knowledge & Innovation, NITI Aayog; Dr Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprrise*; Porush Singh, Country Corporate Officer, India and Division President, South Asia, Mastercard; P K Gupta, MD (Retail & Digital Banking), State Bank of India; Suresh Sethi, CEO, India Post Payment Bank; Vijay Chugh, Consultant, World Bank.
Source: Businesswire