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Singapore’s Temasek Allots $500 Million for Impact Investing in LeapFrog Tie-Up
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings is committing $500 million to a partnership with private equity firm LeapFrog Investments, in what both companies said was the largest ever commitment to an impact investor.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- South Asia
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Mondelez Philippines: Snack Giant Partners With the Plastic Flamingo to Recycle Waste Into Eco-Bricks
Snack Food company Mondelez Philippines recently announced that it would “substantially” invest in plastic waste management and has teamed up with social enterprise The Plastic Flamingo to recycle waste into eco-bricks.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Experian and FinScore to Raise Financial Inclusion in the Philippines via Alternative Credit Scoring
Experian, the world leader in information services, has partnered with FinScore, the pioneer in delivering telco data credit scoring to the unbanked and underbanked populations in the Philippines.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Indonesian Farmers Go Digital
Indonesian farmers will be able to harness the power of data to improve their farming practices under a deal signed by the national government and Microsoft.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- South Asia
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Cambodia Microfinance Association Members Have Restructured $1.4 Billion in Loans During the Pandemic
Financial institutions that are members of the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) restructured some $1.397 billion in loans for 289,422 borrowers as of February 28 since the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on March 27 issued a circular on loan restructuring during Covid-19, according to CMA.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- South Asia
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Land Bank of the Philippines Lends Over $143 Million to MSMEs and Co-Ops for COVID-19
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) has approved loans totaling P6.95 billion for 227 borrowers composed mostly of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives that are affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Amartha Bags US $50 Million Debt Financing to Provide Working Capital to Female Entrepreneurs in Rural Indonesia
Amartha, an Indonesian P2P lending platform focused on women micro-entrepreneurs, announced today it has secured a US$50 million debt financing from US-based Lendable.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Philippines Offers Nurses in Exchange for Vaccines From Britain, Germany
The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- employment, vaccines
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