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How Managing Wealth Differently Can Contribute to a More Equitable Recovery
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s racially disparate death rates to uprisings sparked by ongoing deadly police brutality, all disproportionately affecting black communities, there may be no better time to rethink how that wealth gets managed and how it might be managed differently in order to contribute to a different social outcome.
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- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Press Release: DFC Approves $1 Billion of Investments in Global Development
Projects support developing countries reeling from COVID-19 and include first transactions using equity and technical assistance
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Press Release: Top Tips for Getting a Job in Impact Investment
Impact investment is the fastest growing sector of the financial industry. In a 2019 deal that signalled the scale and potential of the sector’s future, the British asset manager, Schroders (with over $400 billion of assets under management) acquired a majority stake in BlueOrchard.
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- Finance
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Facebook Invests in Gojek to Drive Financial Inclusion & Businesses
Facebook has reportedly invested in Gojek, a ride-hailing & food delivery company in Indonesia, with an undisclosed sum.
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- Finance
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- digital payments
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Viewpoint: Central Banks Must Connect Climate Change and Financial Inclusion
Johanna Nyman is head of Inclusive Green Finance at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Eric Zusman is research leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies.
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- Environment, Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How COVID-19 Will Reshape Islamic Finance Markets
Since the inception of the Islamic finance industry in the 1970s, there has been a steady growth in demand for sharia-compliant products and services and the industry’s total assets reached US$2.5 trillion globally in 2019.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- ESG, lending, microfinance
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Press Release: Financing a Better Future – Launch of Water Unite Impact
Today, Water Unite is proud to announce the launch of the Water Unite Impact, managed by Wellers Impact. This investment vehicle, with planned capitalisation of US$ 100 million, will invest into private sector water, sanitation and plastics recycling firms globally. It will endeavour to address the gap in the funding landscape not currently filled by charitable foundations, microfinance institutions, commercial banks and traditional capital markets.
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- WASH
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- recycling
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Digital Lending Post COVID: How Micro-Credit Holds the Key for Small Merchants, Customers to Bounce Back
Credit and Finance for MSMEs: Digital lending platforms with the principles of financial inclusivity will emerge as the heroes of the financial crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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