1. Prof Rekha Jain IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence,
Moving Forward with the FG Agenda: Lessons from Indian Financial Inclusion
Prof Rekha Jain IIMA IDEA Telecom Centre of Excellence,
IIM Ahmedabad, India

2. (Source: McKinsey Report-”Global Financial Inclusion Fall 2010”)

3. Extent of Financial Exclusion – Global
2.5 billion adults, just over half of world’s adult population, do not use formal financial services to save or borrow.
2.2 billion of these unserved adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Of the 1.2 billion adults who use formal financial services in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, at least two-thirds, a little more than 800 million, live on less than $5 per day
(Source: Key findings of research report “Half the world is unbanked”, March 2009)

4. Extent of Financial Inclusion
Key Statistics on Financial Inclusion in India: A Survey
(%)
Share with an account at a formal financial institution
Adults saving in the past year
Adults originating a new loan in the past year
Adults with a credit card
Adults with an outstanding mortgage
Adults paying personally for health insurance
Adults using mobile money in the past year
All adults
Poorest income quintile
Women
Using a formal account
Using a community-based method
From a formal financial institution
From family or friends
India 35 21 26 12 3 8 20 2 7 4
World 50 38 47 22 5 9 23 15 17
Source: Asli Demirguc - Kunt and Klapper, L. (2012): ‘Measuring Financial Inclusion’, Policy Research Working Paper, 6025, World Bank, April.
The key message from these analyses is that hundreds of millions of adults living on lower segment are already being reached with formal financial services. Serving these segments at scale is not only possible, but to a large extent, is already happening.

5. Road map for Financial Inclusion –India
For achieving planned, sustained and structured financial inclusion.
Approach adopted by RBI- Some Specifics
Technology- To be fixed first.
All Bank branches must be on Core Banking Solution (CBS). All Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) on CBS by September 2011.
Multi-channel approach (Handheld devices, mobiles, cards, Micro-ATMs, Branches, Kiosks, etc.)
Front-end devices transactions must be seamlessly integrated with the banks’ CBS.

6. Financial Inclusion Perspective
Most important prerequisite of a computer or an electronic device from the customer’s perspective and from an inclusion perspective
It is the “Standardization”
The best financial innovation of the recent times- the ATMs.
Do they result in faster dispensation of cash? A definite "yes".
Is it hassle free? To me, "No".

7. Financial Inclusion Perspective
The different ATM cards, micro-ATM cards, Debit/Credit cards, etc. are confusing to the man on the street.
Different operational system of ATMs
Insertion: Swallow or Swipe
Different point of transactions on Terminal
Interaction feature at terminal: GUI keypad or Touch Screen
Amount Recognition: in terms of standard multiples, round offs etc.
“Why do we not think of standardization even in this basic product?”
K C Chakrabarty, RBI Deputy Governor: ICT based financial inclusion – carving a new path through innovation

8. Financial Inclusion Perspective
Low cost for low value transactions
Innovative Models prevalent in India
Eko
FINO
ALW
Now these model formats are reaching to some convergence via UID enabled Micropayment (Aadhaar) and RuPay (Indian Debit Card Network)

9. AADHAAR
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is Government agency for implementing the AADHAAR scheme, a unique identification project and will maintain a database of residents containing biometric and other data.
Aadhaar is a 12 digit individual identification number with biometric identification consisting of:
Iris Scan
10 Fingerprint Scan
Face Camera

10. Interoperability Architecture for UID enabled Micropayment
Key Institutions:
Banks
Government Department
NPCI
UIDAI
(Source: UIDAI)

11. AADHAAR Enabled Micropayment Architecture
(Source:

12. Aadhaar Based Micropayments
A UID-enabled Bank Account (UEBA) linked to a UID number
A BC (Business Correspondent) operating a handheld micro-ATM device.
Transactions on the UID-enabled bank account function essentially as a prepaid system, similar to that used by mobile operators.
BCs (self-help groups and Grocery shops) to offer basic banking services at low risk to the bank.

13. Micro -ATM Biometric authentication enabled hand-held device
BC handles physical currency (cash-in & cash-out) not a machine like a regular ATM.
All transactions through biometric authentication

14. 270 million debit cards in the country today (RBI data)
RuPay is the Indian domestic card payment network.
Set up by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the behest of Indian Banks Association
Approved by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) . .
237 million transactions for a value of Rs. 357 billion at PoS terminals.
Maximum usage at ATMs with 4235 million transactions for a value of Rs. 11,144 billion

15. Key Facts about RuPay
RuPay will be accepted at all the 91,000 ATMs and over 0.6 million points of sale terminals in the country.
Future acceptance on the Internet and also at ATMs/PoS terminals abroad.
International remittance arrangement via payment gateway Discover.
Adoption of the RuPay Card will help banks save Rs 2500-Rs mn annually as interchange charge is cheaper by up to 40% (Visa and MasterCard).

16. Emergence of Variety of Players -Innovators
Sarvatra Technologies provides a world-class EFT switch using international standard ISO 8385 protocol, (validates the customer card, the ATM/POS terminal, and the PIN) and then forwards the transaction to the NFS and back.

18. Choices for the FG Choice of Application Area – Micropayments ??
Which part of payment cycle-
3. Multiplicity of standards- SCOSTA (based on ISO 7816 ), Biometric identification standards (ISO 19794).
4.   Multiple technologies and delivery models for financial transactions.
Identification
Verification/Authentication
Aggregation/Switching over different CBS
Payment to customer
Across different financial products and services