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Remittances: Moving People Move Money
New innovations in digital technology are rapidly changing the global remittance landscape.
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Coca-Cola and Unilever to Develop Circular Economy in China
The Coca-Cola Company has partnered with Chinese online retailer JD.com to encourage plastics recycling and help drive the circular economy in China.
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Viewpoint: China’s Embrace of ESG Is Threat to Real Sustainable Investing
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing standards—also called “sustainable investing” and “socially responsible investing”—have taken on greater importance in the investment community in recent years. Such investing has also reached the shores of China. With this, ESG investing reaches an inflection point. Will the standards have real bite, effecting change at companies, or will they become an irrelevant article for portfolio managers to simply “check the box” and move on?
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Jeff App, the ‘Tinder for Loans’, Raises €150k to Boost Financial Inclusion in Southeast Asia
Latvian fintech startup Jeff App has raised €150K to further evolve its “Tinder for loans” solution in the Vietnamese market, as well as expand to Indonesia later in 2020. A number of European business angels participated in the Jeff App pre-seed round, the very first company’s funding round to date.
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How E-Payment Systems Promote Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
Indonesia – through various studies and surveys – has learned that cashless transactions or e-payment systems have bolstered its financial inclusion last year.
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Mobile Money Waits for Legal Corridor to Become Formal Payment Method in Vietnam
Mobile money refers to the use of a mobile account for payment in general. This method is gradually more feasible now that 90 percent of the population in Vietnam own a mobile phone.
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Why Asia Could Soon Dominate Responsible Investing
While Asia might currently be lagging behind in terms of market share in the ESG investment space, I believe there are several key reasons this can be expected to change over the next decade.
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A New Digital Bank Will Launch in the Philippines in 2020
TONIK believes that Philippines banking sector is ripe for a digital disruption, and will follow the lead of other markets globally, where digital-only “neobanks” have rapidly captured millions of customers and attracted over $5B of investor funding in the last 2 years alone.
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