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By: lucasabia April 6, 2019May 18, 2019 MarketsAmit Bouri, Big Capital Society, clearlyso, Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, Ethex, Featured, GIIN, impact investors, la bolsa social, Markets, OurCrowd, SeedTribe

How Online Platforms Are Contributing to Develop Impact Investing

Crowdfunding platforms are trying to make the most of impact investing trends whilst new data on the market open-up fresh perspectives for both investors and entrepreneurs.

By: lucasabia March 13, 2019May 18, 2019 MarketsCambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Featured, Fintech, FinTech Working Group of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, Nigeria, UNSGSA

The Story of a Catfish and Fintech Regulation

How are regulators innovating to better respond to financial innovation?

By: lucasabia March 1, 2019April 13, 2019 MarketsEntrepreneurship, Equity Crowdfunding, Featured, Financial Times, Impact, Industry, Investors, millennials, Personal Wealth

What Do Millennial Crowdfunding Investors Want?

Equity crowdfunding platforms keep on growing as Millennials start becoming the biggest investment cluster.

By: lucasabia June 10, 2018March 28, 2019 Marketsbrexit, Civic Crowdfunding, Crowdpac, donald trump, European Crowdfunding Network, Featured, Industry, populism, Spacehive

The Soft Power of Crowdfunding

What’s the role crowdfunding can play in the era of populism? The patchwork of many overlapping processes.

Dazibao

Part news aggregator and part commentary, the project aims to create a collage of smart stories about people, innovation and impact with the goal of drawing the identity of the new forms of equity financing in the context of the fifth industrial revolution.

What Are Millennials Investing In?

By: lucasabia May 23, 2019

Marketsinvesting, millennialsLeave a Comment

SoFi CEO Anthony Noto breaks down for Jim Cramer the kinds of stocks that millennial and early investors are buying and how the money app is helping users get their finances in order.

Crowdfunding: A Force for Good?

By: lucasabia May 14, 2019May 14, 2019

Marketscommunity, Crowdfunding, investing crowdfunding, Nesta, Tech For Good, ukLeave a Comment

A new study from Nesta shows how crowdfunding can empower local communities. However, there is no shortage of challenges.

Is Economic Growth Fuelling Climate Change?

By: lucasabia May 13, 2019

IdeasClimate Change, Data, FTLeave a Comment

FT data journalists Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch look at the numbers behind George Monbiot’s argument that pressures for GDP growth of 3 per cent are in conflict with the drastic changes needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Why Impact Investing Starts With Good Intentions, But it Cannot End There

By: lucasabia May 13, 2019May 19, 2019

IdeasAdam Bendell, FT, impact investing, Negative EsternalitiesLeave a Comment

Every human activity produces both positive and negative impacts. Unless we measure and manage the negative along with the positive, we cannot be sure we are achieving our intended net societal and environmental benefits, nor can we take corrective action.
(Adam Bendell, CEO of Toniic on the FT on why Impact investing starts with good intentions, but it cannot end there)

Vodafone Launches the Fourth Round of its Global Social Impact Accelerator to Empower Women in Tech

By: lucasabia May 8, 2019

StartupsAccelerators, F-Lane, Impact Hub, Impact HUb Berlin, Social Entrepreneurship Akademie, Vodafone, Vodafone Institute

Partners are the Impact Hub Berlin and the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie.

Exploring Blockchain for Alternative Finance: A CrowdCamp

By: lucasabia May 2, 2019

IdeasBlockchain, Christin Friedrich, Crowdfunding, European Crowdfunding Network, Heike Holzner, Joachim Schwerein, Markets, Philipp Sandner, Sirius Mind, University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics

Registrations are open for taking part in the 4th ECN CrowdCamp “Exploring Blockchain for Alternative Finance” in Berlin on 13th June 2019.

Surviving the Start-up Ecosystem

By: lucasabia April 29, 2019

IdeasCEO, Consilience Venture Capital, Founder, Startup, Startups, Venture Capital

In this guest post, Consilience Venture Team proposes five tips to start-up CEO or Founders.

Societe Generale Issued the First Covered Bond as a Security Token on Ethereum

By: lucasabia April 27, 2019

MarketsBlockchain, Security Token Offering, Societe Generale, STO

Societe Generale SFH, the covered bond vehicle of Societe Generale, issued the first covered bond as a security token on a public blockchain.

It’s Time to Update the Narrative ESG isn’t Mainstream, Study Says

By: lucasabia April 25, 2019

MarketsESG, Impact, impact investing, millennials, Morningstar, Positive Investors, Research, study, sustainability, Sustainability Investing

A brand new research from Morningstar finds that most investors, across ages and genders, have clear preferences for ESG investment products.

Two Top UK Universities Joined Forces To Foster Entrepreneurship

By: lucasabia April 23, 2019

MarketsAston University, Birmingham, business angels, Entrepreneurship, Minerva, Minerva Business Angels, uk, University, University of Birmingham, University of Warwick Science Park, West Midlands

UK’s West Midlands business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors have welcomed the launch of a new angel investment network for the region.