The Oslo Business for Peace Award is given yearly to enterprise leaders, as people, for his or her excellent businessworthy accomplishments; leaders who apply their enterprise vitality ethically and responsibly, creating stronger financial and societal worth. Past winners embody Paul Polman, Ouided Bouchamaoui, Richard Branson and Durreen Shahnaz. The 2020 winners (Honourees) will likely be celebrated on the Business for Peace Summit in May 2021.  READ MORE

The FT’s Shanghai correspondent Thomas Hale looked at the women’s livelihood bonds issued by Singapore’s Impact Investment Exchange, which presented a rare pro bono opportunity for top US capital markets lawyers. READ MORE

As with any bond, the $12m raised at the start of the year by Singapore’s Impact Investment Exchange to support women’s livelihoods across Asia required extensive legal advice. “We could not have done this without the pro bono support,” says Robert Kraybill, chief investment officer at IIX. READ MORE

So, in 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis, Shahnaz set up the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the world’s first social stock exchange. The Peak chats with the quinquagenarian trailblazer about impact investing, late-stage capitalism and the She Is More initiative. READ MORE

IIX Impact Partners, a debt and equity crowdfunding platform, announced that it has helped Bangladesh-based clean energy firm SOLshare close a $1.1 million (~₹81.9 million) financing round that will help fund smart solar microgrids to off-grid, underserved communities in the country. IIX’s press statement said that the investors who participated in the funding round included innogy New Ventures LLC – the venture capital investment arm of the German utility firm innogy SE— along with the investment arm of Portuguese utility firm EDP Ventures, as well as other angel investors from around the world. READ MORE