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UN Sustainability Goals: A Road Map for Impact Investing
Equity investors are increasingly thinking about how their decisions affect society. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a good road map for identifying investments that can make an impact—and generate profits as well.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, SDGs
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Kenya’s BitPesa Closes $2.5M Funding Round
Kenyan digital currency payments platform BitPesa has closed a US$2.5 million series A funding round, with a view to expanding its services further across West and Southern Africa, as well as in the UK and Europe.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Indonesia’s Largest Private Bank Launches $15 Million Fintech VC Firm
Indonesia’s Bank Central Asia (BCA), the country’s largest private bank, has steamrolled its way into the Fintech space with an investment of 200 billion rupiah (approx. $15 million) in financial technology startups and companies.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- fintech
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Viewpoint: Shooting Yourself In The Foot With Socially Responsible Investing
Socially responsible investing (SRI). Environmental, Social, and Governance investing (ESG). Impact investing…and so on…
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Indonesia: Bank Central Asia Launches VC Unit, to Invest $15m in Fintech
Indonesia’s largest private bank Bank Central Asia (BCA) has launched a venture capital business unit called Central Capital Ventura (CCV), joining the race to use financial technology (fintech) startups to reach the otherwise “unbanked” markets.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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IPOs in Microfinance – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Highlights from Our Twitter Debate
Microfinance's first initial public offerings played an important role in both the sector's emergence and in its fall from grace. But in light of two recent successful IPOs in India, many are wondering if public investment is coming back into vogue in the industry. We gathered a panel of experts, including both optimists and skeptics, to debate the pros and cons of public investment in microfinance in a Twitter chat on Jan. 30; you can read the chat here.
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- Investing
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Environment Benefits As Impact Investors Take On Brexit and Trump
Shocked impact investors in family offices are devoting their capital to their causes in reaction to the Brexit referendum result and Trump presidential election. The role of advisers was also predicted to increase in value to impact investors, according to the T100:Launch, the debut report from a multi-year study of the portfolios of more than 50 Toniic 100% Impact Network members.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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World Bank Accused of Incentivizing Investments in Fossil Fuels Through $5B Policy Loans Portfolio
A new report by advocacy group the Bank Information Center has accused the World Bank of funding the creation of policies that promote the development of coal, gas and oil projects in four countries, but the World Bank says the report “grossly misrepresent” its activities.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing