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Pismo Raises $108 Million Series B Led by Softbank, Amazon and Accel To Enable Cloud-native Financial Services Globally
Pismo, the cloud-native core banking and payments platform, announced the signing of a $108 million Series B fundraising round.
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- Finance
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- Global
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- data, fintech, infrastructure, innovation
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Analysis: How Companies Can Partner With Social Enterprises in Their Value Chains
A growing number of leading companies are answering this question, in part, through partnerships with social enterprises. Social enterprises are mission-led organizations — for-profit or nonprofit — that tap market forces to explicitly create social or environmental impact.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Press Release: Golding Enters Impact Market With €300 Million Global Private Equity Fund
With “Golding Impact 2021” the Munich-based asset manager is pursuing a global private equity impact strategy based on environmental and social sustainability targets that are ambitious, quantifiable and integrated.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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- ESG, impact investing
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IBM Pledges to Reskill 30 Million People by 2030
IBM has pledged to give 30 million people worldwide new technology-based skills by 2030 through local partnerships with education providers, government departments and other organisations across 30 countries.
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- Education, Technology
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- Global
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- edtech, partnerships
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UN Report: Climate Commitments Must Redouble To Meet Paris Agreement
Nations must redouble planned climate targets if the world is to meet the minimal threshold of the Paris Agreement, according to a new UN report warning that while emissions are being reduced, the pace of progress is falling behind required rates.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Analysis: The Case of the Underperforming Circular Economy
Progress resides through the decidedly less-glamorous earthbound work of business process improvements, negotiations among buyers and sellers, and internal business teams needing to resolve highly complex technical issues. These efforts are essential to building more empowering business cultures through intra-organizational and cross-value-chain networks.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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- circular economy, scale
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Report: Investing $1 Per Person Per Year in Hand Hygiene Could Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives
All households in the world’s 46 least developed countries could have handwashing facilities by 2030 if the world invested less than US$1 per person per year, in hand hygiene.
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- WASH
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- Global
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- hygiene
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Harry & Meghan Join Socially Conscious ESG Investing Craze
Prince Harry and Meghan are joining the hottest investment trend in recent years – ESG – a form of investing that promises positive returns for people and the planet, but which is facing growing charges of ‘greenwashing’.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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