In Ethiopia, five-year old startup Kubik is converting up to 45 tons of hard-to-recycle plastics daily into affordable green building materials such as rubber bricks, beams and columns. It has raised ...

With the introduction of the Employee Ownership Development Act , Illinois is poised to create the largest dedicated public investment vehicle for employee ownership in the country. State Rep. Will ...

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The Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of federal student loan borrowing is starting to push more higher education borrowers into the hands of private lenders, where loans can be costlier and ...

Slowly, then all at once. The adage sums up the feeling of late that artificial intelligence, under development for years, is suddenly on the verge of disrupting every facet of life. That is putting ...

Misperceived risks are among the biggest obstacles to the mobilization of private investment for much-needed infrastructure projects in emerging markets in Africa and Asia. But such mispriced risks ...

Utility Global’s H2Gen technology produces clean hydrogen from water and industrial off-gases through an electrochemical process that eliminates the need for electricity. That has attracted asset ...

Gurgaon-based small business lender Aye Finance is a long-standing darling of India’s impact investing scene. The 12-year-old firm developed an early alternative credit scoring approach to improve ...

Deploying AI for good is nice, but not enough. Impact investors and others are mobilizing capital to build “good AI.” This month’s sudden acceleration in public awareness of the impending AI ...

Gary Community Ventures has been working its local wealth building strategy in Colorado for decades, backing innovative fund managers like Dearfield Fund, Kah Capital Management and Apis & Heritage.

Impact incentives. ETIC’s second fund is cutting checks of €5 million to €25 million for solar, onshore wind and energy storage projects. It has already committed half of the capital raised for ...

As an advisor, your role is to protect and grow your clients’ capital. Naturally then, investments are most often assessed through the lens of risk-adjusted returns. So, when a client brings forward ...