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Impact Investors Still Chasing A Too-Small Pool Of Companies
Interest in impact investing continues to increase, even as investors report a shortage of promising opportunities.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion to back new web-based lender focused on funding veteran-owned small businesses
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- StreetShares, Inc., a new web-based lending platform, announced this morning the close of a $1.2 million seed round led by Accion Venture Lab, a seed-stage investment initiative sponsored by microfinance pioneer Accion. The round also included Washington D.C.-area community bankers, military veteran investors, Harvard Business School angels and Capital One alumni.
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- lending
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Indian microfinance bank Bandhan plans to open 600 branches
Microfinance outfit Bandhan Financial Services Ltd., which got a banking licence from the Reserve Bank of India on April 9, is planning to open around 600 branches, its Chairman and Managing Director Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said.
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- South Asia
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BLOG: Momentum Builds for 100 Percent Impact Investment Movement
When I first started working in impact investing, the field's challenges were foundational: refining the concept, finding suitable investments, figuring out how to measure impact, even determining what to call the concept. Work in all those areas continues, but the field has matured to the point where it's on the agenda of the G8, finance conglomerates feel they need to have an impact product, and the mainstream business press is taking notice (if skeptically). N
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Equity Crowdfunding Platform Return on Change Has Million-Dollar Baby
It may happen in careful, tiptoeing steps, but a local equity crowdfunding platform is maturing.
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- Technology
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JP Morgan & GIIN survey highlights higher impact investment commitments
Widespread commitment to allocate 19% more capital to impact investments in 2014 compared to 2013 revealed by JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) survey.
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Major lenders gear up for digital financial services in Indonesia
Following Bank Indonesia’s (BI) decision to revise its electronic money regulation, major lenders are now preparing to venture into the new frontier of branchless banking, with an aim to reach those underserved by banks.
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- Technology
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- lending
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1,000 Days: The Period That Decides the Health and Wealth of the World
A globetrotting investigation into the biggest new idea in international development.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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