The global impact deals, reports and initiatives you need to know this month – all in one place. This month featuring Deloitte, Fair4All Finance, Phenix, the Global Impact Investing Network, and more.
Affordable credit, access to unclaimed benefits, emergency plumbing and more: how UK social enterprises are helping to alleviate the economic squeeze for the most vulnerable.
PLUS: JPMorgan Chase commits £1.2m to Fair4All Finance to improve financial inclusion; IIX launches coalition to develop first gender-lens ‘asset class’; UK impact investments estimated at £58bn; and more.
PLUS: Fair4All Finance invests £1.8m to scale affordable lending; carbon-farming startup Agreena raises €20m Series A; French insurer MGEN launches €80m impact fund; and more
How do you distribute £800m – announced recently as part of the planned expansion of the UK's Dormant Assets Scheme – for maximum social impact? Nick Temple, CEO of the Social Investment Business, has three suggestions.
Government-backed Fair4All Finance teams up with six social investors to provide a perpetual bond to UK-wide affordable credit pioneer – set to grow ten-fold as a result.
Government lauds social enterprise for its ‘vital role’ in national coronavirus effort, announcing £30m for flexible finance in both crisis and recovery phases via Access Foundation.
PLUS: Covid-19 announcements you may have missed; ADB Ventures tech fund raises first $50m; EU invests €1m in Oneplanetcrowd platform; grants for UK energy innovators; and more from the world of investing for good.
