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Sustainable Investing to Surge to $125 Billion in India by 2026: Benori Knowledge Report
The factors encouraging sustainable investment ventures in the country are consumer demand for socially responsible brand behaviour, government policies and the massive growth of cleantech and green initiatives.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Zvolv to Invest $3 Million to Scale up Middle East & North Africa Operations
The investment will help the Pune-based startup, to strengthen its business operations as well as build on its partner ecosystem.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Decentralizing Data Management Across ESG and Impact Investing: How Blockchain Innovation Can Address the Data Gap – And the Ratings Controversy
ESG and impact investing have gone mainstream, with US $53 trillion – one-third of global assets under management – projected to be classified as ESG investments by 2025. But as Miriam Davidovic at RAZ Finance points out, investors can't direct their capital toward sustainable businesses without reliable data – and there are growing questions about whether current ESG data and ratings practices are capturing real impact. She argues that a decentralized approach to ESG and impact data management is needed, and explores several blockchain-based innovations that empower individuals to provide trustworthy, transparent, anonymous impact data.
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- Investing, Technology
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Press Release: Vice President Harris Announces More Than $1.9 Billion in New Private Sector Commitments as Part of Call to Action for Northern Central America
The Vice President, U.S. Department of State, and the Partnership for Central America (PCA), come together to announce private sector commitments now total more than $3.2 billion
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- Investing
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- Latin America
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ESG Isn’t a Scam. Here’s Why.
Investors in unsustainable assets are lashing out at ESG. We’ve got their attention; now it’s time to step up our game.
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- Investing
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- Global
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How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions
A pair of twentysomethings from Uganda and Ghana thought there was a fortune to be made bringing transnational financial services to Africa's 1.2 billion people.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Expanding Financial Opportunity to All: Kiva CEO Chris Tsakalakis Discusses the Pioneering Lending Platform’s Evolving Focus
In April of last year, Chris Tsakalakis was named CEO of the San Francisco-based microlending nonprofit Kiva, after successful leadership stints at Vivino, the world’s largest online wine marketplace, and StubHub, the world’s largest online ticket marketplace. We caught up with Tsakalakis roughly one year into his tenure at Kiva, to discuss his vision and priorities for the organization, the lessons he’s learned in his time at the helm, and his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing Kiva and the broader microfinance sector in the coming years.
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Press Release: Robinfood Closes a New Investment Round of 32 Million Dollars That Will Allow It to Continue With Its Successful Expansion in Latin America
RobinFood, the biggest cloud-based restaurant company in Latin America, has closed a new investment round of 32 million dollars.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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