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Speeding down the road to electric vehicles, powered by China
- “New energy vehicles” are a pillar, along with advanced robotics and artificial intelligence, of China’s “Made in China 2025” plans to dominate strategic industries. EVs are also strategic to China’s efforts to reduce pollution and oil imports.
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FinAccel raises $90 million for low-fee lending app
Indonesia's lack of access to finance, coupled with deep mobile penetration, is driving the popularity of alternative credit and lending products, like FinAccel’s Kredivo.
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Australia’s ATEC raises $1.6 million to sell biodigesters in Cambodia, Bangladesh
Singapore’s Impact Investment Exchange helped ATEC raise the equity financing, which was led by French energy company ENGIE's impact fund.
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CloudFactory raises $65 million, providing a partial exit for Dolma Impact
- It took four years for Dolma Impact Fund to raise its first fund in Nepal, and only took two years to achieve its first exit.
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Japanese pension fund pushes asset managers to get tougher on sustainability
- Institutional investors of GPIF’s size can’t escape market downtowns as they, effectively, “own the market.” That makes them “universal owners” and, in Mizuno’s view, responsible for systemic risks to the market.
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Stone Family Foundation backs $10 million sanitation impact bond in Cambodia
USAID will repay the U.K.-based philanthropy if the four-year project is successful in eliminating open defecation in rural villages.
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