Finance
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05-11-10
IFC Congratulates Moroccan BMCE Bank on Adopting Equator Principles
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, welcomes the announcement by BMCE Bank, Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur, that it has become the 68th financial institution to adopt the Equator Principles.
This confirms the bank's commitment to sus...
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05-07-10
New Green development plan by Piraeus Bank
The Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness & Shipping, the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change and Piraeus Bank, through its subsidiary ETVA VI.PE SA (a company owned 35% publicly and 65% by Piraeus Bank that manages 26 Industrial Areas in Greece), announ...
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05-06-10
GoodCompany Ventures Announces Deadline for Applications
GoodCompany Ventures is pleased to announce that they have selected three more companies to participate in the 2010 Social Impact Incubator. Five of the ten participants have now been confirmed and GoodCompany Ventures will close the application process as of Monday, May 10t...
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05-06-10
Expert Available: Complexities of Environmental, Social and Governance-Focused (ESG) Investing
As more institutions conclude that considering environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions can impact investment portfolio performance and better align investments with broader social objectives, a new set of questions and is...
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04-28-10
GoodCompany Ventures Announces Selections for 2010 Social Impact Incubator
GoodCompany Ventures is pleased to announce the first two companies, one local and one from the U.K., selected to participate in the 2010 Social Impact Incubator.
The Social Impact Incubator selects entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for socia...
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04-27-10
Impact Investing Partnership with USAID, Rockefeller Foundation, Deloitte, and Prudential Financial to Support Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
In conjunction with the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship today, a consortium of government, private sector, and non-profit players have partnered to support the Global Impact Investing Rating System ("GIIRS"), a new ...
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04-20-10
Trillium Asset Management Adds Another CARS(TM)-Rated CDFI, Coastal Enterprises Inc., to List of Offered Community Investments
Trillium Asset Management Corporation (Trillium) recently added Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a CARS™-rated Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), based in Wiscasset, ME, to its list of Community Investment organizations that are available for client investment....
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04-13-10
GMAC Financial Services Offers Consumers Financial Education
/PRNewswire/ -- Company reaches milestone educating 200,000 consumers in person nationwide and drawing more than 1 million visits to Web tutorials
-- Tips offered via Twitter during financial literacy month
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04-08-10
GoodCompany Ventures: Call for Applications
This Social Impact Incubator is recruiting entrepreneurs who are developing scalable, commercially sustainable innovations for unmet social needs.
Our goal is to provide social entrepreneurs with the resources to implem...
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03-29-10
LeapFrog Poised to Invest $112 Million in Insurance and Microfinance Companies, After Historic Commitments by IFC, KfW, Flagstone and Soros
LeapFrog Investments, the world's first microinsurance fund, announced today that it has surged past its $100 million target capitalization, months ahead of schedule. The fund invests in high-growth, high-impact insurance and financial services companies in countries includi...
