Eko India's Financial Inclusion Initiative

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Case Code : FINC060
Case Length : 18 Pages
Period : 2007-09
Pub. Date : 2009
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Eko India Financial Services Private Limited
Industry : Banking and Financial Services
Countries : India

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The Challenges

Some analysts felt that even though Eko had developed a platform which was cost-effective and user friendly, it might face some challenges while scaling up. According to the RBI Guidelines for BCs released in October 2008, any bank's BC must be within a distance of 15 km from the concerned branch in semi-urban and rural areas and within 5 km distance in the case of metros. This regulation would pose a problem to Eko when it expanded to cover rural areas where most of the villages did not have any bank branch within 15 km radius...

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The Road Ahead

The mobile phone subscriber base was witnessing a healthy growth in India with mobile penetration increasing from 19.8% in 2007 to 29.7% in 2008 and estimated to reach 40% in 2009 (Refer to Table II for Mobile Penetration and Future Projection in India)...

Exhibits

Exhibit I: Factors that Act as Barriers for Financial Inclusion
Exhibit II: RBI Guidelines for KYC Norms
Exhibit III: RBI's Business Facilitator and Business Correspondent Model
Exhibit IV: RBI Guidelines for Mobile Banking
Exhibit V: SBI's Mini Savings Account Main Features
Exhibit VI: Mobile Subscribers Growth in Rural and Urban India (1998 - 2008)

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