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How Blockchain Can Enable Economic Inclusion of Refugees
For Syrian and other refugees travelling to Europe, emerging blockchain-based solutions can play a vital role in facilitating labour recruitment and data exchange of jobseekers in a trusted and secure manner, enabling refugees to find a job or start a business.
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- Finance, Technology
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Viewpoint: Impact Investing Can Unlock the Potential of Blockchain in Africa
Impact investors should wake up to the potential of blockchain. The positives of security and transparency via distributed ledgers outweigh the negative perceptions, such as the ICO bubble.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can Banks Play a Role in Improving Resilience to Climate Change?
In this article, we share some of the recent evidence on these tools––specifically, savings groups, digital financial products, remittances, and flexible credit products. We believe these findings can help FSPs when designing products for poor households around the globe, and we also encourage more testing to ensure such products are both profitable for providers and beneficial for consumers.
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- Environment, Finance
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- climate change
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How to Become a Founding Member of the Libra Association
To be a validator node and founding member, organizations will need to meet technical requirements and specific evaluation criteria. If the conditions are met, upon approval, the Enterprise will have to make an initial minimum investment of $10 million worth of Libra Investment Tokens issued by the Association. Nonprofits will not be required to make the initial investment.
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- Finance
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Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Targeting 1.7 Billion Unbanked
Customers interested in holding or transferring Facebook’s newly-announced Libra token will be given a number of options to do so, the company announced Tuesday, with an initial focus on international remittances.
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- Finance
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How Gender Equality Can Help Build Sustainable Peace
Persuading private investors to back projects that advance gender equality calls for concerted efforts to show that empowering women could reduce risks and enhance overall outcomes, especially in creating sustainable peace in conflict-affected regions around the world.
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- Finance
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Singaporeans Can Now Pay for Their Ride With Go-Jek Using DBS Bank’s E-Wallet
Go-Jek has integrated DBS Bank's e-wallet into its platform to drive cashless mobile payments for consumers in Singapore.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- digital payments, fintech
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A Landmark Impact Investment: Could This Innovative Experiment with Islamic Finance Provide a Model for Both Sectors?
Impact investing and Islamic finance are two segments of the socially responsible finance spectrum that rarely intersect – despite having much in common. But according to Umar Moghul, a transactional lawyer with experience in Islamic law, a recent impact investment by Mission Driven Finance in Somali Family Service of San Diego offers an example of how the two sides can come together to boost their mutual impact.