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Indian social entrepreneur of the year gives rural women access to banking
Social enterprises aim to improve communities and help society benefit from their profits, so what could be more enterprising or more social than a bank for illiterate village women? This is what the unassuming Chetna Sinha has set up: an Indian cooperative bank for 310,000 rural women, doing Read More...
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent climb in 2016. Bitcoin - a web-based "cryptocurrency" that has no central authority, relying instead Read More...
Blockchain app helps migrant workers send money home
Migrant workers often send at least half of their pay to their families in their home countries. In the process, they have to pay for transfer fees and currency exchange rates which may run above 10 percent of the transaction amount. Everex is a startup aimed at solving that problem. Everex is Read More...
Berlin blockchain start-up opens financial books to public
Lisk, the decentralized blockchain application platform based in Berlin, said on Wednesday it has opened its financial records to the public in the interest of transparency and to demonstrate to its thousands of investors its intent to make its project work. The company's founder and chief Read More...
Debunking 4 sustainable investing myths
Enthusiasm for sustainable investing is surging. Already, more than $8.7 trillion of investment capital is managed using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in U.S. markets alone, a 184% increase since 2010. This pot of money increasingly includes investments in green infrastructure, Read More...
7 incredible benefits of cryptocurrency
Over the last couple of years, the term cryptocurrency has been rapidly gaining ground and understanding of its use and value in the public eye. At first it seemed unfamiliar and somewhat scary like the credit card looked to users in its early days. You might be more familiar with terms like Read More...
Blockchain technology is coming to the solar panels on your roof
Where there’s a market with creaking infrastructure to be disrupted, blockchain technology will disrupt it. At least that’s what some proponents of blockchain tech, which shares many of the same principles underpinning bitcoin, are hoping to do with the energy sector. While blockchain Read More...
Indiegogo just made it easier to own a stake in what you crowdfund
Indiegogo, a crowdfunding site that’s popular for movies, games, and other creative works, has paved the way for backers to own a stake in the creative projects they crowdfund. The platform announced a new service yesterday that allows entrepreneurs and creators to offer backers an equity Read More...
US sustainable investment soars 33 per cent to $8.7tr
One in every five dollars invested under professional management in the US is now directed to assets that are defined as sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investing following a period of stellar growth for the sector. That is the conclusion of a major new report released this week by the Read More...
Is Bitcoin the answer to Zimbabwe's currency woes? Some economists think so
Tendai Biti sits in his office in a leafy Harare suburb, contemplating another collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. Thanks to a chronic shortage of United States dollars, the country is running out of cash. There are long queues outside every bank, with some customers forced to wait overnight for a Read More...