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Impact Across All Investments: The role of family offices in building the impact investing ecosystem across the continuum
Over the past several years, we have experimented with and refined our rationale for when it makes sense to deploy what type of capital. While still a work in progress, we believe that playing across the returns continuum expands our opportunities to have scalable impact.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Press release: MicroVest Capital Management Announces the Closing of a $20mm Credit Facility with MetLife Investment Management
The credit line enables MicroVest to better manage liquidity of the fund to deploy more capital, more quickly, to the places that need it the most. Per MicroVest’s stated mission, these are often microfinance institutions in emerging and frontier markets that have few other means of accessing capital to promote financial inclusion within their markets.
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- Finance
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A device that can pull drinking water from the air just won the latest XPrize
The winner of the Water Abundance XPrize creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container.
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- Technology, WASH
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Report: Habitat for Humanity finds Housing Microfinance helps improve living conditions in Kenya
As part of the project, housing microfinance loans were offered not only to informal workers with unsteady incomes, but also to low-income salaried workers making between US$5-10 per day.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- housing, microfinance
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Nigeria’s central bank asks all microfinance institutions to recapitalise by 2020
The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) increases the minimum capital base of National Microfinance Banks to N5 billion from N2 million.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Viewpoint: How the US will transform its investment role in Africa with a new $60 billion agency
For at least thirty years, the US’s commercial relationship with Africa has been dominated by resources underground. Oil, gas and minerals account for about half of all US direct investment in Africa. There has been growth in almost every sector of Africa’s economy, but commercial relations with the US have been dominated by US engagement in natural resources.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya sets aside funds to develop domestic mobile phone industry
Kenya’s minister of information, communication and technology said on Tuesday that the government had set aside 1 billion shillings ($9.90 million) to help local start-ups in the mobile telephone software and hardware segments to grow.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: The Fintech100 – announcing the world’s leading fintech innovators for 2018
The 2018 Fintech100 is the fifth edition of the annual report, a collaboration between fintech investment firm H2 Ventures and KPMG Fintech. The Fintech 100 includes the 'Leading 50' fintech firms around the globe, ranked based on innovation, capital raising activity, size and reach; and the 'Emerging 50', exciting new fintechs that are at the forefront of innovative technologies and practices and are often pursuing new business models.
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- Finance
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