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Impact Finance Bulletin: Scottish National Investment Bank launches

PLUS: Blue Impact Fund first of its kind in UK; Germany's EIF-backed social innovation fund; Bain Capital raises $800m for second impact investing fund; Los Angeles' Everytable raises $16m in Series B round; and more.

Post Reporters
30th November 2020
Mark Carney Impact Investing Institute COP26

Ex Bank of England boss Carney: impact investors are alchemists for the world’s ‘insurmountable problems’

Climate action and ESG investing are finally becoming areas of commercial opportunity, Mark Carney tells UK's Impact Investing Institute – and companies that fail to prepare for a net-zero transition will soon be seen as "unforgivable". 

Anna Patton
27th November 2020
Corona impatience image

Why Covid-19 has made us impatient for more patient, flexible capital

Covid-19 has highlighted the fact that many common forms of social investment are inflexible and have failed the social enterprises they seek to support, says Ben Smith, head of social investment at Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. But being patient and flexible is not without its challenges.

Ben Smith
4th November 2020
Linlithgow Community Development Trust

How citizen investing can support communities to build back better

Social enterprises may be missing a trick if they’re not engaging local individuals as micro-investors – and their own staff and volunteers could lead the way, says the director of Scottish Communities Finance.

Pauline Hinchion
3rd November 2020
Stephen Muers - Big Society Capital

Big Society Capital CEO: 'I’m proud of our review performance – but it raised some important issues'

Three months after the first-ever major review of Big Society Capital's work, the interim CEO says the priorities now are communicating better, influencing government and addressing a culture that can be off-putting to outsiders.

Stephen Muers
26th October 2020
Coding on a laptop

Five things we learned about the first-ever career impact bond

SOCAP Virtual: How a new type of ‘pay-for-success’ deal is giving job-seekers the skills to fill vacant positions – and proving an attractive proposition for impact investors and training providers alike.

Anna Patton
26th October 2020
Black Lives Matter protest by Chris Henry

Taking stock: Are impact investors really ready to take on the world's 'intersecting crises'?

SOCAP Virtual: To make real progress on today's meatiest problems, impact investors themselves may need to make uncomfortable changes. Some insiders, at least, are not convinced they’re willing to do so.

Meg Massey
23rd October 2020
Fran Seegull - US Impact Investing Alliance SOCAP 2020

‘Government must lead again’ – US Impact Investing Alliance

SOCAP Virtual: Previously the message to government was: step aside and let us get on with it. Now advocates of impact investing want Washington to step up – regardless of who’s in the White House.

Anna Patton
22nd October 2020
Margarita Albors

Four ways to help impact investing go mainstream

Bringing more capital to impact is crucial now, and there are four steps the impact investing community can take to make it happen, says the founder and president of Spain's Social Nest Foundation. 

Margarita Albors
19th October 2020
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