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Jamie Dimon: The Biggest Lesson We Learned From Investing in Detroit
The private sector plays an essential role in society, and it is a role we should embrace—not just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s good for our shareholders and for our bottom line, too. Business can do well by doing good.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Generational Musings on Impact Investing: Are They Worth the Paper?
Millennials fall between 20 and 37 years of age; this is still a young generation and, as such, an idealistic group. Research shows that as families grow and people get older, their investing strategies change. Saving the whales might sound good to a twenty-year-old, but the financial burden of children and aging parents may influence a forty-year-old to focus on financial return.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Maisha Becomes First Microfinance Bank in Kenya to Offer Mobile Loans
Maisha MFB becomes the first telco-backed microfinance to launch a savings and mobile money solution in the market and the fourth financial institution, alongside banks like Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA), Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and Equity.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, lending, microfinance
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New Forests: Path clears for ethical investors
Timberland investor New Forests is encouraging Singapore to become Asia’s hub for impact investing, while solving the region’s annual pollution problem.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, forests, impact investing
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New Case Study Details How to Deploy Successful Agency Banking in Africa
Agency banking utilizes a network of local merchants and shopkeepers, in areas where FINCA usually doesn’t have a presence, to provide basic banking services. The agents are equipped with POS (Point of Sale) machines, a portable device that securely connects to FINCA bank accounts through biometric fingerprints.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Unitus Seed Fund’s Investments Impact 1.2 Million Lives Across India
Unitus Seed Fund, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early- stage startups innovating for the masses, today released its semi-annual impact report, which is now mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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‘We’re trying to go all in’: Chocolate giant Mars pledges $1 billion to fight climate change
"We've been increasingly worried about overall progress on the big issues, whether that's climate change or solving poverty," Barry Parkin, Mars' chief sustainability officer, told Business Insider.
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- Environment, Investing
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- North America
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Why Google Launched Tez Instead of Android Pay in India
It's certainly logical for Google to launch a mobile wallet for India's 300 million smartphone users. But it also might seem odd to introduce Tez instead of Android Pay, which already has footholds in Asia in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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- digital payments
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