Launching later this year

An explainer site for the Indian banking, insurance and mutual fund industries.

Money, Mapped teaches people who work in BFSI how their own industry works. Most of what’s out there defines terms one at a time. This maps how they cause each other. When net interest margin gets squeezed, banks go chasing fee income. When claims run hot, the combined ratio crosses 100 and underwriting starts losing money. And a fund’s expense ratio compounds quietly against its returns for thirty years.

Three industries, around a hundred ideas, each one mapped to what it leads to. It’s written for relationship managers, credit analysts, underwriters, operations staff and new joiners, and for anyone sitting JAIIB, CAIIB or the NISM exams who wants the system behind the syllabus. The context is Indian throughout: rupees, RBI, IRDAI, SEBI.

Every idea comes in two sizes. There’s a two-minute skim, and there’s the full version with the arithmetic worked through. The worked examples use made-up numbers that show real mechanics, so nothing on the site is a live rate or a recommendation.

It’s free to read when it launches, with no account and no paywall.