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Asset Manager Schroders Acquires Majority Stake in BlueOrchard
Asset managers have been increasing their focus on environmental, social and governance issues, in response to demand from investors such as pension funds.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Facebook’s Libra May Target Latin America First
“Latin America is going to be on of the easiest markets for Facebook to test Libra,” said Anouk Pinchetti, a digital currency consultant, adding that Facebook may choose a Latin American country as its first expansion market. “Western Union is viewed as too costly for remittances and there is great proximity to the U.S. and Silicon Valley.”
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Google Is Using Maps to Try and Bring Order to One of Africa’s Most Chaotic Cities
The service now has a new “informal directions” interface dedicated to traveling with public transport buses, known locally as danfo. The interface will also include danfo fare estimates and levels of busyness at local bus stops.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Namibia Announces $338 Million, 5-Year Renewable-Energy Strategy
The country, which is the driest in sub-Saharan Africa and has more than 300 days of sunshine a year, “stands to benefit as the worldwide boom in the solar market results in reduced costs and improved efficiency of solar photovoltaic panels and related equipment,” Haulofu said.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bill Gates and Former Bass Guitarist Aim to Change Health Care
The Gates Foundation makes its first equity investment in online health care with stake in Indonesia’s Halodoc.
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: To Solve the World’s Problems, the Global Development Community Turns Towards the Private Sector
Global capital markets hold more than $200-trillion in assets, and an allocation of just 1 per cent of these assets toward the SDGs would go a long way.
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Press Release: BBVA and Fibra Uno Sign Latin America’s First-Ever Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Line
BBVA served as sole sustainable agent in the first syndicated revolving credit facility in Latin America, signed with Fibra Uno, a strategic client for the bank. The transaction is also the first sustainable transaction by a real estate business in the region and the first facility to be arranged in accordance with the ‘Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles’ in Latin America.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Global Solar Installations to Reach Record High This Year
The rise forecast this year will be driven mainly by Europe - in particular Spain, the United States, India, Vietnam, as well as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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