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Signs That Institutional Investors May Be Reorienting Towards Sustainable Investing
For a long time entrepreneurs, investors and advocates of sustainable investing have spoken longingly about the $2 trillion of institutional investor dollars that have been reputed to be sitting skeptically on the sidelines, teasing everyone with the prospect of finally putting their sizeable investment muscle to work to scale the sector.
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- Investing
- Tags
- ESG, impact investing
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Nigeria’s Central Bank could hamstring local fintech startups with costly new regulation
In a draft policy document, CBN recognized products by fintech companies are “gaining acceptance” but argued their emergence would heighten existing risks in the financial system.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, public policy, regulations, startups
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China’s Impact Investment? That’s Mainly a Project for Foreign Investors
Companies may view reporting as a compliance exercise rather than a meaningful part of their strategic and risk-management thinking. They may focus only on good news. Or they may simply misunderstand what information investors want, a point underscored in several presentations in the Chinese capital.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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U.S. House panel to look at finance sector’s diversity, inclusion
Promoting financial inclusion could be good news for fintech firms, credit unions and community banks by opening up avenues for smaller financial institutions into communities that may have been neglected in the past.
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- Finance
- Region
- North America
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OPIC commits $50 million to global partnerships’ impact-first development fund
Many of the most inclusive and impactful solutions to poverty are fully sustainable, but not highly profitable. This fund will focus on delivering highly inclusive and highly impactful products and services that commercial markets fail to support.
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- Investing
- Region
- North America
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FINCA DRC introduces tablets in the field
Loan officers consider this strategy very effective and beneficial in terms of saving time and space.
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- Press release
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Water access and sanitation shape birth outcomes and earning potential
"What we think is most likely is that carrying heavy loads of water requires a lot of calories, and that many women aren't consuming enough healthy food during pregnancy to sustain the micronutrient needs to grow a healthy baby," said study co-author Kelly Baker, an assistant professor of occupational and environmental health.
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- WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Investing’s Final Frontier: Impact Measurement
In general, each type of social return calls for its own metrics to answer this basic question: Is this social impact investment/initiative having the intended effect?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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