2021 is certainly a year which makes predictions challenging. I still try to come up with four predictions for the coming year: Shifting Narratives: Poverty and unemployment won’t be seen as personal failures anymore The Reckoning: Good and bad corporate behavior will become more visible Social Data: The social [...]

In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the markets have observed a surge in social bonds emissions. As of September 30, prior to the up to €100bn first social bond of the European Union (SURE employment scheme), the volume of social bonds issued was more than eight-fold the one [...]

The Robertson Trust Foundation in Scotland recently published the results of an initial evaluation of their Social Bridging Finance scheme (SBF) pilot. Supporting a highly demanding social services’ transformation in Scotland, SBF is a finance and operational partnership between a private funder, a social enterprise, and a local authority. [...]

Frischepost has raised a seven-figure amount in an investment round led by BonVenture. Hamburg-based Frischepost is linking farmers to consumers and is delivering more than 2.500 different products with electric vehicles. This investment should not be confused with Flaschenpost which is delivering beverages and was recently sold for €1 [...]

Not much happened in the last week. Jeff Bezos has committed $10 billion to fund scientists, activists, NGO and others. On Monday, he said that he is giving the first $791 million to 16 groups. Grantees of the Bezos Earth Fund include the following recipients: The Climate and Clean [...]

Impact finance, like any other structuring sector, is seeing the blossoming of a number of terms aimed at better defining it. With the objective of increasing the capital available by spreading rapidly to all strata of conventional finance, the players agree on a vague definition that facilitates consensus. In [...]