3BL Media

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In addition to growing our flagship product the Community Investment Note to over $625 million assets under management, in the last five years weve brought multiple new products and partnerships to market, including the Cut Carbon Note, Access Small Business Program, and the Mission Driven Bank Fund.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2023

Barclays announced a series of new senior appointments to its Sustainable and Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking (SIB) team, including Arnoud Boksteijn as Managing Director, Cindy Quan as a Director and Head of Americas ESG Advisory, and Bogdan Oprea as a Director.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 30, 2021

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss truth. The post The Week in impact investing: Opportunity appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

Morgan’s Global Impact Fund aims to build a diversified portfolio of impact investment funds focused on financial inclusion, The post J.P. Morgan Private Bank closes $150 million Global Impact Fund appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, March 22 — J.P.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 24, 2020

Most development finance institutions are government-owned entities seeking to mobilize capital from banks and other private investors.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 10, 2020

On ImpactAlpha’s weekly podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about how community banks and local lenders are getting small-business relief loans to underserved communities (see No. The post The Week in impact investing: Forgivable appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Weekly Briefing. 1, below), and.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 7, 2020

Editorial note: The ImpactAlpha team has hijacked this week’s “Agent of Impact” to pay tribute to our very own David Bank on his birthday. ImpactAlpha, May 7 – The editor and CEO of ImpactAlpha decided to treat impact investing as a journalism “beat”… until it became one. “The new lords of finance come, not to.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 28, 2024

The announcement of the winners of “green bank” funding under the Inflation Reduction Act is so close at hand that the Environmental Protection. The post EPA’s new partners plot a $27 billion path to a US green bank appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such financial support is too big for microcredit lenders but often too small for regular impact investors. Additionally, the banking sector is often underdeveloped in rural areas and clients typically need to put up a lot of collateral. These types of investments are critical if a sector is to be successful and sustainable.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 9, 2024

The post Jahi Wise, Environmental Protection Agency: Architecting a green bank for the US. When the $27 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund starts rolling out any day now, it will kick off an inclusive green energy. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

The grant funding will help expand affordable homeownership and rental housing opportunities and investments in small real-estate-focused businesses. ANDP has a 31-year history of partnering with Truist and its predecessor banks to support housing,” said John O’Callaghan, ANDP president and CEO. Truist Bank, Member FDIC.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Barclays announced the establishment of a new Energy Transition Group within its Corporate and Investment Bank, responsible for advising clients in the exploration of energy transition opportunities, and supporting clients on the path to net zero.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It’s not just global banks doubling down on carbon-emitting fuels. The post Private equity, like banks, pours money into fossil fuel companies appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Private equity, an opaque corner of the financial industry that oversees more than.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Barclays announced the appointment of Denise Wong as Head of Sustainable and Impact Banking, Asia Pacific. She will report regionally to Vanessa Koo, Head of Investment Banking, Asia Pacific. Wong will also have functional reporting to Brian Reilly and Marie Freier, Global Co-Heads of Sustainable and Impact Banking.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

want impact investment options. Triodos Bank U.K. is responding with an impact bond fund that starts at £20 per share. The Triodos Sterling Bond Impact Fund, launching in early November, will invest in corporate, social and green bonds, and U.K. The post Triodos Bank develops impact bond fund for U.K.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 8, 2024

The post ‘Green bank’ partnerships center affordable housing in climate action appeared first on ImpactAlpha. What could we achieve if the affordable housing sector was at the forefront of climate solutions in the United States? While “green housing”.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 29, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sent depositors fleeing into the arms of large “Systemically Important Banks,” even after the. can boost community financial institutions to counter bank consolidation and bridge racial wealth gaps appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post How the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 14, 2024

The post How loan guarantees and catalytic capital can amplify federal ‘green bank’ funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Much like the broader financial system, green lending in the US has primarily focused on higher-income, White borrowers with higher credit scores.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 9, 2020

In sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank forecasts economic growth to pick up to 2.9% (from an estimated 2.5%

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 11, 2024

The post Private sector sees opportunity in federal ‘green bank’ fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is intended to bring in at least seven times as much in private capital for.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank challenged investors to “10x” impact investing, to grow total assets under management from billions to trillions and to develop “moonshot ideas” that could catalytically grow our impact.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to The World Bank, the COVID-19 pandemic will. For the first time in two decades, global extreme poverty is expected to rise.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

20 – The world’s largest multilateral bank will no longer fund fossil fuel projects post-2022. The European Investment Bank is on a new strategy to unlock $1.1 trillion for climate finance and sustainable investment over the next decade. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 27, 2020

27 – Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank will invest a capital gains windfall in community development projects within its 10-state footprint. The post Fifth Third Bank commits $100 million to impact-focused Opportunity Zone projects appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Impact investing has found a foothold in donor advised funds. From affluent individuals and families to community and corporate foundations, donors are looking closely at the investment side of their philanthropic capital and investing charitable assets in ways that provide immediate benefit to those who need it most.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In March 2022, the Network for Greening the Financial System , a coalition of more than 120 central banks and supervisors, published a new statement , acknowledging that biodiversity loss could lead to significant macroeconomic and financial stability risks. The future lies in impact investing.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 17, 2023

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Banking impact. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Madness appeared first on ImpactAlpha. March madness, indeed. The annual basketball tournament in the U.S. has so far been overshadowed by the.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 24, 2023

Host Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse. The post How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Just Capital

JUNE 30, 2023

Amalgamated Bank CEO Priscilla Sims Brown, The Ford Foundation’s Roy Swan, and CNBC’s Leslie Picker (Image Credit: Christopher Galluzzo). billion in custody and investment assets under management, as well as Roy Swan, Director of Mission Investments at the Ford Foundation , one of the largest private foundations in the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 30, 2021

From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system. Though long committed to being “market neutral,” some are even starting to push greener investments. Read the full story at e360. Read more →

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

Bibin Emmanuel, Senior Consultant - Sustainable & Impact Investing at Acre said: “I think the US regulatory development is a positive development that the world's largest economy is finally seeking to walk the talk on climate change.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Hi there, Agent of Impact! ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Amy Cortese, Zuleyma Bebell and Joe Whitwell and Iare in San Francisco this week at SOCAP24. The post ImpactAlpha Open: Impact investing assets top $1.5 Catch us today. trillion + C3 doubles down on catalytic capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 27, 2023

David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact. The post What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Today, we are witnessing some of the first “impact investing” pioneers coming together with a new generation of faith-based asset owners and an expanding set of networks that support them, to learn from one another, share knowledge and expertise, and invest their resources for a better world.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 13, 2024

The post US Export-Import Bank bucks the green finance agenda – to its own detriment appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Should the US government really be allocating public funds to support oil drilling in the Middle East? This question comes sharply into focus.

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James Militzer

JUNE 9, 2022

As long-standing global crises accelerate and new crises continue to emerge, a new, more conscious generation of investors increasingly expects their capital to create positive environmental and social impact. . How Blockchain Innovation is Democratizing ESG and Impact Data.

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3BL Media

APRIL 10, 2024

Through lending, investing, philanthropy, and volunteerism, we work together to serve our neighbors and revitalize our neighborhoods," said Chris Gorman, KeyCorp Chairman and CEO. Our long record of 'Outstanding' CRA ratings is a testament to our enduring commitment to being both a responsible bank and responsible citizen.

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