There is a big difference between philanthropy/ charity and impact investing. Philanthropy/charity has no revenue model. Such pure giving is needed at the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs where the donees have no capacity to pay anything. The big problem with philanthropy/charity is the continuous need for fund raising. However, impact ventures have […]

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In simple language, a security token is a blockchain-based "share" of an underlying asset, such as a company, real estate, or gold.

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Summa Equity has raised the largest European impact fund to date with €2.3bn of capital commitments, triple the size of its predecessor fund.

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People often talk about getting onto the property ladder, but property is only one type of asset used for wealth creation. Equities is the primary asset used by the wealthy. Imagine somebody born into a poor family who on her/his 21st birthday receives a certificate that in real inflation adjusted terms represents more money than […]

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This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at  Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis […]

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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Growth Business

Lord Wei of Shoreditch also calls for pension funds to invest up to 5% of their assets into transformative social and environmental technology

Before looking at what real democratization of Wall Street could look like, today’s Part 2 looks at how purely profit oriented ventures that dress up the pitch in one of 3 democratization of Wall Street lies. Lie 1 = smaller units access. This pitch typically touts the investment returns of an asset class that requires a […]

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The fix for wealth inequality is the democratization of “Wall Street” which is the subject of this 4-parter to kick off 2022. “Wall Street” is short hand for the global financial system, which includes many other cities such as London, Zürich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco. Wealth Inequality is behind a lot of […]

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Originally written by Timothy Adler on Growth Business

Impact investor Future Planet Capital, which has £300m invested to date, closes £3m crowdfund raise through Seedrs within one week