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Experian leads USD 28 mln investment to drive financial inclusion across Southeast Asia
Experian has led a USD 28 million Series C investment in C88 Financial Technologies Group(C88) to drive financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.
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- Asia Pacific
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This Guide Helps Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Overhaul Their Human Capital Strategies
“We knew this was a problem, we just didn’t have a solution,” says Rachel Crawford, innovation manager for emerging markets at Village Capital. “The challenge offered us the chance to explore what it could look like.”
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- Investing
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MicroVest Sees Microfinance Shifting to Small Business
“What happens when the woman borrower who started with a $200 loan has built her business and has 10 employees and now needs $5,000 in capital to buy equipment and machinery?” asks Ron Cordes, the former co-founder and executive co-chairman of AssetMark, who has invested in MicroVest through his family foundation since 2007.
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- Investing
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How impact investing can tackle the plastic crisis
According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 32 per cent of plastic packaging escapes collection systems worldwide and, if current trends continue, the weight of plastic in the oceans could surpass the weight of fish by 2050.
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- Environment, Investing
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At the Vatican, a different type of investing conference
There were several more nuns and priests in attendance than at a typical impact investing conference, but the third Vatican Impact Investing Conference, held last week, explored both where the field is headed globally and what role the Roman Catholic Church might have moving forward.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Press release: ImpactAssets Unveils Portfolio Directory of Cutting-Edge Impact Investing Deals Sourced Through Giving Fund
“The Giving Fund Portfolio Directory is one of the most comprehensive and accessible impact investing databases available at no cost to users,” said Eric Meissner, Director, Custom Investments and Business Analytics at ImpactAssets. “It allows users to look under the hood at some of the most innovative impact investing deals being done and it demonstrates the real world impact our donors are making every day.”
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press release: Gray Matters Capital to Commit More Funds to Enterprises in Africa Benefiting Women and Girls; Backs Ghana’s Redbird Health Tech under its coLABS Portfolio
Gray Matters Capital (GMC), an Atlanta-based impact investor with a gender lens whose mission is to provide “an education leading to a more purposeful life for 100 million women globally by 2036”, has today announced its investment in Ghana’s Redbird Health Tech through its GMC coLABS portfolio.
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- Press release
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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Capria partners with Australia’s DFAT to expand investment platform in SE Asia
Global impact investment firm Capria has announced a partnership with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to expand its investment platform into the Southeast Asia region.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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