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Investment trust’s $150m listing to bring ‘impact investing’ to mass market
Currently impact investing is focussed on private equity and private debt meaning it is only available to the wealthiest of private investors, such as family offices. This is despite demand for socially responsible investment products from the upcoming generation of investors.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Application period for the European Microfinance Award 2017 on Microfinance for Housing now open
The European Microfinance Award is a prestigious €100,000 award which attracts applications from financial institutions around the world that are innovating in a particular area of financial inclusion. Presented annually, it serves two parallel goals: rewarding excellence, and collecting and disseminating the most relevant practices for replication by others.
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- Finance
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Durreen Shahnaz wins Oslo Business for Peace Award
Durreen Shahnaz, an investment banker and media executive-turned-social entrepreneur from Bangladesh, has won the Oslo Business for Peace Award 2017 for transforming the way financial and capital markets are moving beyond profit maximising to maximising purpose and impact.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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World Bank issues first UN sustainable development bond
The World Bank has raised its first bond linked to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as it looks to help a global effort to end poverty, tackle climate change and promote equality.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Landmark $3 Billion Socially Responsible Synthetic Securitization
Crédit Agricole CIB is pleased to announce the completion of Premium Green 2017-2, a $3 billion synthetic risk transfer related to the bank's portfolio of project finance and object finance loans.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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Latest GSMA Report Highlights Success of Mobile Money with over Half a Billion Accounts Worldwide
The GSMA today unveiled its sixth ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’, offering a current snapshot of the mobile money landscape and highlighting the impact of mobile money on lives, economies and innovation over the past 10 years. The report provides the only comprehensive picture of mobile money around the globe.
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- Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Five HIV patients left ‘virus-free’ with no need for daily drugs in early vaccine trials
A new vaccine-based treatment for HIV has succeeded in suppressing the virus in five patients, raising hopes further research could help prevent Aids without the need for daily drugs. Researchers combined two innovative HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer in the trial, conducted over three years at the IrsiCaixa Aids Research Institute in Barcelona.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- public health, research
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The Little Yellow Box That’s Made Thousands of Operations Safer
Gundegmaa Tumurbaatar glimpsed her son only for an instant as he was carried into the ageing Soviet-built hospital where she works. It was one of the first fine days after the gruelling Mongolian winter, and she had left Gunbileg, aged three, and his older brother playing outside, telling them to be careful. Now, he was moaning in pain and covered from head to toe in filth and blood. A passer-by had brought Gunbileg to the hospital after seeing the two boys trying to jump over an open manhole above a sewer – watching in horror as the younger boy had fallen into the jagged pit on his abdomen. By the time Gundegmaa saw him, he was in shock, his belly frighteningly distended, an internal haemorrhage putting him at imminent risk of cardiac arrest.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia