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Grab Leads Series B Round of up To $100 Million in Indonesian Fintech Linkaja
Indonesia’s fintech app LinkAja announced that it has raised up to US$100 million in a series B round led by Southeast Asian super app Grab.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: The State of Blended Finance 2020 Addresses Ways To Turbocharge the Market To Achieve Scale and Advance the SDGs
Convergence, the global network for blended finance, launched the 4th edition of the State of Blended Finance today.
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- Investing
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- blended finance, impact investing, scale, SDGs
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Press Release: Former Bitcoin CEO Launches Sonic Capital, Asia’s First Tokenized Venture Investment Fund
Sonic to support startups that use blockchain technology to provide solutions to environmental and social challenges, with a focus on the carbon credit markets
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- Investing
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Analysis: Recovering the Missing Millions Owed To Africa’s Minigrids
Only a tiny percentage of international donor cash is going to projects, and it’s especially bad in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Leveraging the COVID-19 Crisis for Local Development: How the Pandemic Can Strengthen Public-Private Collaboration in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive humanitarian crisis. But as Malado Kaba, the first female Economy and Finance Minister of the Republic of Guinea argues, it could also be an opportunity for the African continent. She explores how public-private partnerships and improved collaboration across industries and sectors could create sustainable change—if governments take the lead in mobilizing private sector and development partners to support locally driven solutions.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Investing
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Press Release: IFC Provides $100 Million for Santander To Support Small and Medium Enterprises and Finance Renewable Energy in Brazil
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $100 million loan (equivalent to BRL560 million) to Santander Brasil to boost access to credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Half of this financing will be devoted to the commercialization of photovoltaic panels. Of the remaining amount, at least 20 percent will be directed to SMEs owned by women.
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- Latin America
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Analysis: How Emerging Markets Can Become Green Economies
This article discusses these micro and macro ways of providing impetus to green/renewable projects through financial and structural solutions
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Bayer Expands Better Life Farming Initiative in India; Empowers Smallholder Farmers Across Six States
After the successful implementation of its ‘Better Life Farming’ initiative in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, Bayer has now expanded the initiative to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal. Better Life Farming aims to provide smallholder farmers with access to modern agri-inputs and farming advisory and enable additional income generation through rural agri-entrepreneurship.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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