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‘The Big Issue’ launches blockchain platform to promote impact investing
The Big Issue, a street newspaper sold by the homeless in the U.K. and other countries, is launching a blockchain-driven platform to promote impact investing. Three investment companies — UK Standard Life Aberdeen, U.S. Columbia Threadneedle, and AllianceBernstein — will join The Big Read More...
Crowdfunding is opening up Britain’s justice system
Chris Day’s first Twitter post was fairly standard. “It feels good to tweet,” he wrote. He got two likes. A week later he posted a second time, about a legal challenge to protect junior doctors’ whistleblowing rights. Hundreds of people retweeted it. Soon, he marshaled an “army” of Read More...
Signs that institutional investors are reorienting towards sustainable investing
Could sustainable investing be at a tipping point? For a long time entrepreneurs, investors and advocates of sustainable investing have spoken longingly about the $2 trillion of institutional investor dollars that have been reputed to be sitting skeptically on the sidelines, teasing everyone with Read More...
This startup is making investing in clean energy projects easier than ever
A new crowdsourcing platform makes it possible to direct even the smallest investments towards clean energy projects. At the Jumpstart platform, people can put just a few bucks into the projects of their choice in the form of a loan. Once the project is successfully functioning, investors are paid Read More...
Muhammad Yunus: Separate financial systems—not charity—will end poverty
For more than 40 years, Muhammad Yunus has been building a financial system for people who lack sufficient access to the one that already exists. In 2006, the now 78-year old won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as “banker to the Read More...
Green bonds issuance crosses $100 billion in 2018
For a second consecutive year, green bonds issuance has crossed $100 billion, marking a major milestone for low-carbon funding around the world. The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has reported that the total volume of green bonds issued this year crossed $100 billion mark in Read More...
The one monthly payment that prevents you from building wealth
You may think that it doesn't make a big difference to pay $500 every month to lease a car. After all, it is nice to drive a new car. But here's the math: if you pay $500 a month for a car for 30 years, you end up paying $180,000 just for driving a new car. If you drive an old car instead and Read More...
How impact investors can better serve communities: ask them what they need
Amid the decline of the coal economy in West Virginia, the city of Williamson has not fared well. Nestled in the heart of coal country in Mingo County, Williamson has lost more than 2,000 jobs–25 percent of its workforce–in the last four Read More...
Blockchain after bitcoin
The world is changing at a breathtaking pace. Blink once, and you will have missed yet another disruption, another tech-driven Read More...
Why Bill Gates expects a huge wave of poverty reduction in Africa
While the pictures we see of Africa in the media or in donation campaigns show stark poverty and despair, these images don’t show the whole picture. In fact, when it comes to many important indicators such as literacy rates and childhood deaths, life in Africa has improved dramatically over the Read More...