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Press Release: Blockchain Start-up Proof of Impact Announces Close of Investment Round led by Franklin Templeton
This first investment round allows Proof of Impact to continue its fast growth and execute its ambitious goal of securitizing proven impact and bringing proven impact investment products to global capital markets.
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- Press Release
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- Investing, Technology
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- blockchain, impact investing, SDGs, startups
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African Development Bank to Launch $270M Fund for Social Impact Investors
The African Development Bank is setting up a new US$270m social impact fund to support small and medium-sized enterprises.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Foundations and Family Offices Create a Fund to Support Impact Investing
The founding donors also include Ian Simmons and Liesel Pritzer Simmons’ family office, Blue Haven Initiative, and a corporate member, the Visa Foundation.
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- Investing
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What’s Really Driving Africa’s ‘Investment Frenzy’?: An Entrepreneur Responds to Investor Concerns
In her much-discussed NextBillion article about avoiding “the Africa investment frenzy,” impact investor Lauren Cochran urged entrepreneurs to forego the “growth-at-all-costs” approach to scaling and “the ego-boost of big rounds and press releases.” But Zoona co-founder Mike Quinn argues that her advice ignores a reality that many investors don’t recognize. Quinn pushes back on Cochran's argument from an entrepreneur's perspective in this compelling counterpoint.
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- Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press Release: Nuveen Identifies Emerging Themes for Impact Investors in Inaugural Private Markets Report
The report, Raising the Bar – Impact Investing in a Changing World, highlights Nuveen’s 30-year track record as an impact investor and how during its three-decades of market leadership it has produced transparent and measurable social and environmental outcomes along with risk-adjusted financial returns for investors.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Africa Ripe for More Impact Investments, Says Report
“There is much need for impact investing in Africa to drive the continent to reach its full potential,” the report says, adding that impact investing can offer capital to tackle some of the greatest challenges across various sectors including microfinance, affordable healthcare and housing, agriculture and energy.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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What Is Sustainable Finance? That’s a $4 Trillion Question for Investors
Major fund managers, including BlackRock Inc. and Amundi Asset Management, are running into a roadblock as they seek to put more money into emerging-market sustainable investments: a lack of common global definitions that would make it easier to identify what to buy.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Digital Impact Investing Is Here Now
In an often bleak political epoch, what a ray of light—capital and digital are working in partnership and we are moving the dial on impact.
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- Investing