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Two Financial Titans Open Their Vaults to Impact Investing
Started a few years ago by a small band of pioneers, impact investing has gained traction and is now drawing the attention of large international banks. Large financial institutions such as BNP Paribas and Citigroup, based in Europe and the United States, respectively, are developing various projects in the field of social and sustainable finance.
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Impact investing on the cusp of mainstream wealth management
The news releases arrived in noteworthy succession throughout 2013. Morgan Stanley,UBS AG, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co. — some of the biggest names in the financial services industry — announced plans to establish or augment their activities around impact investing.
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Dispatches from the Mobile Money Revolution: Mondato Summit Africa highlights the dynamism (and tensions) behind the continent’s embrace of mobile finance
Africa is widely seen as ground zero in the mobile money revolution that’s sweeping the developing world. The Mondato Summit Africa brought some of the continent’s key mobile financial services players together for a lively, at times controversial discussion of the challenges and opportunities they face.
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Inheritance-Rich Millennials Are Primed to Become Impact Investing’s Most Ardent Supporters
Millennials stand to inherit $30 trillion (U.S.) in assets over the next three decades. Understandably, investors, and the rest of the world, have a major interest in how these young people will choose to invest their inheritances.
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Reserve Bank of India testing mobile-based payments system linked to Aadhaar national ID platform
Despite uncertainty surrounding Aadhar's future, RBI is testing a mobile-based payments system linked to this platform
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World Cup Soccer & Social Enterprise: A Hybrid Financing Model
The potential of hybrid financing strategies to accelerate the growth of the social business sector was one of the topics at the fourth edition of the Impact Economy Symposium & Retreat in Switzerland on June 13-15, 2014.
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A New Pursuit For Social Entrepreneurship: Profits
John Schoch, CEO of Profile Products — a $70 million company that manufactures and distributes products for soil and water management in 90 countries — decided four years ago to direct his company’s expertise to a global crisis: clean water.
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International Telecommunication Union sets up mobile money focus group
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a focus group on mobile money, setting its sights on global financial inclusion.
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