Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)’s award-winning Women’s Livelihood BondTM Series (WLB Series) – Asia-Pacific’s first-ever multi-country gender bond series to be listed on a stock exchange – has gained new support the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the Rockefeller Foundation.
IIX successfully closed the US$12 million Women’s Livelihood Bond 2 (WLB2), IIX’s second multi-country gender bond to be listed on the Singapore Exchange. WLB2 will create sustainable livelihoods for more than 250,000 underserved women in the region. This is the second bond in IIX’s award-winning WLB Series, which boasts investors from the U.S., Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. READ MORE