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Telenor Microfinance Bank Receives $45m Equity Injection To Continue Its Growth on Digital Strategy
Telenor Microfinance Bank, the first scheduled microfinance bank of Pakistan and the operator of the country’s leading digital payments platform Easypaisa, has received an investment of $45 million from its shareholders Telenor Group and Ant Group Co., Ltd. (Ant Group).
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Kenyan MNO Safaricom Launches 2nd Edition of Spark Venture Fund, Ups Size To $6 Million
Leading Kenyan mobile network operator (MNO) Safaricom has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which will invest a total of US$6 million in several innovative Kenyan tech startups.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale, startups
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Press Release: ImpactAssets Clients Lean Into Impact Investing During COVID Pandemic
Impact Investments increase tenfold while grants rise 400% in the first half of 2020 in a show of unprecedented generosity.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Analysis: COVID-19 Pushes Social Issues to ESG Forefront
One of the many upheavals caused by the COVID-19 crisis has been some reordering of environmental, social and governance priorities for institutional investors.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Analysis: Investing in Social Good is Finally Becoming Profitable
Impact investments, which aim to promote a social good or prevent a social ill, have significantly outperformed traditional bets during the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- impact investing, research
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Press Release: Symbiotics Launches USD 6.75 Million (INR 506,250,000) Social Bond with Samunnati Financial Intermediation and Services Private Limited in India
Symbiotics has arranged a Social Bond, raising USD 6.75 million in local currency (INR 506,250,000) for Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services Private Limited, a non-banking financial company in India.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing
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- South Asia
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Press Release: SOCAP Virtual: A Global Impact Summit Convenes Community of Social Impact Stakeholders for 13th Annual Conference October 19-23
Collective of changemakers partner to unlock the power of global markets to accelerate an inclusive econom
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Demise of ESG Investing Overstated
The Department of Labor’s recent notice of proposed rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in pension fund investments has received a lot of responses, both in the official Federal Register docket and in the news media and blogosphere.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, governance
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