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Asian Development Bank Investing $25 Million in Private Equity Fund to Grow Middle-Market Companies in Southeast Asia
The multilateral lender signed a $25 million equity investment in the private equity fund managed by Singapore-headquartered investment firm Exacta.
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- Education, Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Analysis: Activist Investors and NGOs Leaving Regulators in Their Wake in the U.K.
The two claims reflect a wider trend of activist litigations brought by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and investors in the United Kingdom and overseas in bids to move the dial closer toward the target of net zero, even when governments and regulators appear to lack the same resolve.” (That may be a longer blurb than usual, but I think it’s warranted in this case
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, corporations, ESG, NGOs
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Analysis: ESG Data Can Keep Businesses Accountable, but Only if It Can Be Trusted
ESG data will be vital in painting a picture of how and where industries are succeeding – or failing – in the battle to reach net zero.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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- data, ESG, greenwashing
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Tyme Raises $77.8 Million to Fuel Global Expansion
Tyme, a global digital bank and the parent of South Africa's TymeBank has secured $77.8 million from Norrsken22 and Blue Earth Capital.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns
To be successful, impact investors need more realistic expectations and to be part of a larger and community-based pool of capital, including philanthropic investments that lays the groundwork for impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Global
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First Project Under IFC’s Global Food Security Platform to Tackle Food Insecurity in Bangladesh, Improve Farmers’ Livelihoods
IFC is providing up to $35 million to Tanveer Food Limited (TFL) to help ensure food security and improve the incomes of more than 123,000 smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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era92 Fund Raises $425,000 From Angello and PVL to Back Micro and Social Ventures in Uganda
era92 Fund backs companies solving our society’s biggest challenges to build a prosperous Africa.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Switzerland Allocates €217 Million to African Development Fund to Support Climate Resilience
Switzerland is allocating funding to the African Development Fund (ADF) to strengthen the financing of climate projects in Africa.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa