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‘Blended’ finance is key to achieving global sustainability goals, says report
In a report to be presented on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission found that private sector investors could take advantage of blended finance to gain access to rapidly growing markets in the developing world.
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Ant Financial and the Greening of Fintech
The fintech boom has certainly re-shaped the way business is done and fashioned societal shifts in China’s consumer market; it is changing behaviors. Can the fintech boom also create opportunities to help spur sustainable development?
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- Environment, Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Everyone’s a winner? How ‘impact investing’ can make money – and do good
Previously the domain of corporations and the wealthy, impact investing is now available to anyone with small amounts of cash to spare - with investments in community cinemas, affordable housing or low cost gyms - from as little as $70.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investing Marketplace ImpactUs Shuts Down
“The ImpactUs Marketplace was formed with the goal of simplifying the impact investing process; providing impact investors, advisors, and institutions with solutions to accelerate the flow of capital to funds, companies, and projects that deliver community, societal, and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, we have had to make the difficult decision to cease operations,” reads a message on its web site.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, startups
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China’s cryptocurrency crackdown cost bitcoin company BTCC tens of millions in revenue: ‘It was in the realm of our worst possibility’
BTCC founder and CEO Bobby Lee told Business Insider: "We always knew it was a risk that the Chinese government would look unfavourably on bitcoin and put some strong rules around it.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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- cryptocurrency, fintech
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I’m not trying to strongarm CEOs to adopt my worldview, says head of $6 trillion money manager
Fink sent a letter last week to the chief executives of the world's largest public companies, calling for them to help improve society or risk losing support from BlackRock, which just surpassed $6 trillion in total assets under management in the latest quarter.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Impact funding for Kenyan firms set to hit $1.2B
The rise of social impact investors — who invest in firms or projects that will have a wider social impact such as high job creation — is opening up an additional funding stream for start-ups which have traditionally relied on private equity and venture capital funds for financing.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, startups
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What is Omidyar Network and why did it invest in Rappler?
In a statement Omidyar Network affirmed that it “does not own any shares” in the Rappler entities, “nor does it have any voting rights, management responsibilities or any other form of control in either company nor any editorial input in Rappler.”
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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