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MetLife Plans To Disrupt $2.7 Trillion Life Insurance Industry Using Ethereum Blockchain
If successful, this program has the potential to transform the insurance industry as a whole, creating new markets, products, and the ability to serve a more diverse set of customers at lower price points.
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- Finance, Technology
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- blockchain, insurance
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Green Bond Milestone: Global Issuance Surpasses $100bn in First Half of 2019
The $100bn mark was first reached in November 2017 during the COP23 climate summit, and then again in September 2018. Now the milestone has been reached during the first half of the year for the first time.
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- Environment, Finance
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- climate change
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What Counts as a “Green” Investment, Anyway?
To plug the gap, “sustainable investing” is spreading from a niche area of the financial sector into the mainstream. Investing along environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is one of the fastest-growing strategies in finance.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, greenwashing, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Could Be Great, if Not for Facebook
Libra is the evolution of that early goal, now with grander ambitions. Facebook wants to completely reshape how people make online payments. By detaching from currencies like the U.S. dollar, Libra could bring instant, low-cost digital payments and transfers to anyone with a phone
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- Finance, Technology
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Will Values-Based Investing Ever Take Off?
“ESG is so hard to define—people can’t even articulate what they’re trying to achieve,” says Joshua Miller, an investment strategist and estate planner with CIBC Private Wealth Management. At a presentation for clients in February, he says, investors saw data showing that companies scoring highly on ESG criteria tend to outperform. “I didn’t find anyone saying it’s bunk,” he says. “But a lot of people said, ‘We need more convincing.’ ”
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Who’s Going to Use the Big Bad Libra?
There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think, because most pundits haven’t spent much time in the developing world, which is very clearly the target market here.
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- Finance, Technology
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India’s MobiKwik Mobile Wallet To Go Global
The partnership will enable the app to offer international mobile recharge, rewards and airtime credit services in more than 150 nations across some 550 mobile operators.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- South Asia
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Facebook’s Crypto Launch Partner Kiva Is Introducing a Refugee Investment Fund
The fund will be part of Kiva Capital Management, a new shop that will join what the Global Impact Investing Network estimates as the $502 billion market for investments aimed at positive social change.
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- Finance
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