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Chinese investors warming up to impact investing, but regulations slowing progress
Chinese investors are showing increasing interest in start-ups with innovations that tackle energy consumption, social and climate change issues, but the main force behind such so-called impact investing remains foreign firms and supranational agencies, according to fund managers.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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China’s Major Tech Firms Will Dominate SE Asia’s Emerging Markets: Who Wins And Who Loses?
Digital behemoths Alibaba and Tencent are expanding their e-commerce, cloud and data capabilities across the SEA region, which has a rapidly growing population of more than half a billion people.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce, fintech, MSMEs, public policy
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Asian Development Bank and Maybank provide USD 20 million in finance to Myanmar microfinance sector
Maybank and ADB will improve access to financial services to even more low-income families and small-business owners.
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- Asia Pacific
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Understanding China’s foreign agriculture investments in the developing world
Developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America were among China’s investment regions, with the investment types and goals differing for each.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Lessons from China’s mobile payments revolution
There is no disputing that China is ahead of the rest of the world in mobile payments. What insight does it offer U.S. bankers?
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Indonesia’s ‘Superheroines’ Empowered with Renewables
Women and renewables empowerment programme expands solar energy access to Indonesia’s off-grid communities
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- Energy
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Global Findex: Indonesia leads East Asia and the Pacific in financial inclusion progress
Almost fifty percent (48.9%) of the adults in Indonesia now own a bank account, reflecting a true turning point in the country’s journey to boost financial inclusion. This also registers a marked improvement from its 36% of account ownership in 2014 and 20% in 2011.
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- Asia Pacific
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Social Enterprise Certification Launches in Australia
Social enterprises in Australia will be able to receive national certification for the first time, with the launch of a new certification scheme.
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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