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New Heists Reveal Two Key Things About The Evolution Of Bitcoin
The bad news is that three Bitcoin thefts made headlines this week.
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- digital payments
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UK Boosts Social Enterprise With 30% Tax Relief on Social Investments
A move welcomed by campaigners and industry experts as potentially unlocking millions of pounds for social enterprises.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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B Lab Just Announced its B Corp Best for the World List
The list includes 92 social enterprises creating the most positive overall social and environmental impact of the almost 1,000 certified B Corporations in operation.
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Bonds Tied to Green Investments Are Booming
Christopher Flensborg of SEB, a Swedish bank, calls it another tipping-point for “green bonds”, and he should know: he invented them.
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- Environment
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Biz-school courses focus on giving back
In 2010, Donnel Baird grew increasingly frustrated while working for a coalition of labor and environmental groups in Washington, D.C., to promote residential energy efficiency and sustainability projects. In the process, he discovered how difficult it was for entrepreneurial businesses, nonprofits, churches and other small enterprises to find backers such as banks willing to fund their efforts to install solar power or energy-conservation technologies. "The transaction costs and the risks were too high," he said.
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HaPinoy, PBSP work to revive E. Visayas sari-sari store economy
SOCIAL enterprise HaPinoy is closely working with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to revive the sari-sari store economy in Yolanda-ravaged areas in Eastern Visayas. HaPinoy president Mark Ruiz said they will initially help 2,000 sari-sari stores in Leyte for the livelihood rehabilitation effort that will benefit 100,000 residents to have access to basic commodities.
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InVenture raises $1.2-million to help serve emerging markets’ underbanked
InVenture is a credit score for anyone with a mobile phone. In order to expand its phone-based personal finance software, InSight, which generates financial identities and credit scores for the underbanked in South Asia and Africa, the startup has recently raised US$1.2-million.
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Decade after debt relief, Africa’s rush to borrow stirs concern
NEARLY a decade after Nelson Mandela and anti-poverty activists Bono and Bob Geldof persuaded the rich world to forgive Africa’s crushing debts, many countries’ debt levels are creeping up again, which could undermine the region’s growth boom.
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- governance, lending