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Jay Z Launching Venture Capital Fund to Invest in Startups, Including Impact Investments
Jay Z is launching a new venture capital fund, as Rolling Stone points out. It’s called Arrive, and it is a collaboration between Jay’s Roc Nation, Primary Venture Partners, and GlassBridge Asset Management. According to a press release, Arrive will invest in startup companies, “providing them with brand services, business development, advisory and capital to drive growth in their organizations.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
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- venture capital
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Landmark $3 Billion Socially Responsible Synthetic Securitization
Crédit Agricole CIB is pleased to announce the completion of Premium Green 2017-2, a $3 billion synthetic risk transfer related to the bank's portfolio of project finance and object finance loans.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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Three Leading Organizations In Africa And The Mastercard Foundation Partner To Improve Livelihoods For 1.1 Million African Smallholder Farmers
DAKAR, Senegal - Three of the leading organizations in Africa working with smallholder farmers today joined The MasterCard Foundation to reaffirm their commitment to provide farmers with more of the financial resources and agribusiness connections they need to succeed.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Samsung Pay Mobile Payment Platform Goes Live in India
Samsung's mobile payment platform Samsung Pay has finally launched in India. The service was expected to make its debut in India for weeks now. The company on Monday confirmed to Gadgets 360 that mobile payments platform Samsung Pay was open for Early Access registrations in India, via the official Samsung Pay website.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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IFMR Investment to raise Rs 550 crore for financial inclusion space
Kolkata: IFMR Investment Managers Pvt Ltd is aiming to raise a minimum Rs 550 crore from long term investors keen to exposure to the country’s growing inclusive finance space. The Chennai-based company, wholly owned by IFMR Capital, has unveiled two debt funds and expects domestic institutional investors such as insurance companies, banks and non-banking finance companies to invest in them. About 10% of the issue is kept for private wealth funds.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Impact investing in the age of President Trump
If implemented, the president's policies could have a profound effect on issues that resonate with a growing number of investors: the environment, social issues and corporate governance.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Impact Investing in the Age of President Trump
It's too soon to tell what effect the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency will have on impact investing. But if implemented, Mr. Trump's policies could have a profound effect on issues near and dear to a growing number of investors: the environment, social issues and corporate governance.
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US State Dept thinks Africa’s leading mobile money platform is vulnerable to money laundering
Mobile money providers like M-Pesa have disrupted traditional financial systems in many countries in ways conventional banks could only dream of. But, despite the significance of such services in the lives of millions of people, they remain vulnerable for use by money launderers, says a US Department of State report (pdf, pg.116).
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- Technology
- Region
- North America
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