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FinTech Enabler Ukheshe International Attracts Investment From DPI And Fireball Capital To Fuel International Expansion
Ukheshe was established to drive financial inclusion across Africa and beyond, by creating new ways for businesses to develop and grow their financial services offerings.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GM to Put Thousands of Electric Vehicle Chargers in Rural America
General Motors is moving ahead with plans to install as many as 40,000 electric vehicle chargers in, mostly, rural parts of America. This comes as GM plans to sell exclusively zero-emission passenger vehicles by 2035.
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- Technology, Transportation
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- North America
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Loss-Stricken Byju’s Seeks Easier Terms on $1.2 Billion Loan
According to persons familiar with the situation, Indian online-education company Byju's is looking to renegotiate its $1.2 billion loan as it battles with high losses and cost-cutting targets.
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- Education, Telecommunications
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- Asia Pacific
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- edtech, telecommunications
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UK to Give £650 Million for Projects in Developing African Countries
The UK will contribute £650 million to the African Development Fund towards high impact and low-cost finance projects in developing nations in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Closes the Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 5 – the Fifth Issuance in the Women’s Livelihood Bond™ Series and the World’s First Orange Bond
The US$50 million IIX Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 5 is the first sustainable debt security in the market issued in compliance with the Orange Bond Principles and is expected to empower ~300,000 women and girls across Asia and Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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India Shows How Investing in Smaller Projects Can Drive Large-Scale Green Transformation
Projects in India reveal how transformative change can be replicated across the world.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Green Finance Quickly Enough?
The use of ESG analysis in investment decision-making is still routinely conflated with the measurement of sustainable outcomes. We need a sharper lens.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Global
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Why Social Design Projects Fail
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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