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IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond 2 Successfully Closes — Part of Asia Pacific’s First-Ever Multi-Country Listed Gender Bond Series

January 15, 2020 Press Release

January 15, 2020 – SINGAPORE – Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has successfully closed the US$12 million Women’s Livelihood Bond^TM 2 (WLB2), the Asia-Pacific’s second multi-country gender bond to be listed on a stock exchange (the Singapore Exchange), creating sustainable livelihoods for 250,000+ underserved women in the region. The WLB2 is the second bond in the award-winning Women’s Livelihood Bond Series (WLB Series), which has gained new support from The Rockefeller Foundation, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), Standard Chartered Bank, Latham & Watkins, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, and UN Women.

UN Awards Ceremony Celebrates Innovative Climate Solutions

December 11, 2019 Press Release

(Madrid, 10 December 2019) – Fifteen game-changing initiatives from more than twenty countries have been celebrated as winners of the prestigious UN Global Climate Action Awards during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid.

The Awards spearheaded by UN Climate Change’s Momentum for Change initiative showcase some of the most practical, scalable and replicable examples of what people across the globe are doing to tackle climate change.

ATEC* Biodigesters secures US$1.6M Series B with support from the Clean Cooking Alliance and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) to scale clean energy access in Asia

November 27, 2019 Press Release

SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA, 27 November 2019 – ATEC* Biodigesters (ATEC*), an Australian social enterprise, has raised US$1.6M in a Series B equity round to roll out the world’s first PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) model for biodigesters as well as to expand its operations from Cambodia to Bangladesh. The funding for ATEC* was secured with support from ATEC’s key partners, the Clean Cooking Alliance and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). The investment was made by a consortium of investors led by ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies and including Fondation Ensemble, the IIX Growth Fund, and Phitrust Asia.

2019 UN Global Climate Action Award goes to IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond(TM) Series

September 25, 2019 Press Release

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 – NEW YORK & SINGAPORE – Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), a global organization dedicated to building a more inclusive world through innovative finance and support for high-impact enterprises, has won the 2019 UN Global Climate Action Award for its Women’s Livelihood Bond^TM Series (WLB Series). The Award, given by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) in the backdrop of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in New York, recognizes the most innovative, scalable and replicable solutions across the globe that are tackling climate change alongside other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A Celebration of Innovative Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Women’s Livelihood Bond(tm) Series Named 2019 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year

September 24, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – 23 SEPTEMBER— P4G, the Partnering for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030 Initiative, selected The Women’s Livelihood Bond^TM Series, a partnership-driven project addressing SDG 2: Zero Hunger, as the 2019 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnership of the Year. The winner was announced at the P4G Awards Luncheon, hosted by SAP, on the sidelines of the UN Climate Action Summit today.

IIX’s Women’s Livelihood BondTM Series Wins P4G State-of the-Art Partnerships Award for Innovative Approach to Advancing Sustainable Development Goals

August 28, 2019 Press Release

AUGUST 28, 2019 – WASHINGTON DC & SINGAPORE– Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) – a global organization dedicated to building a more inclusive world through innovative finance and support for high-impact enterprises – has won the 2019 P4G State-of-the-Art Partnerships Award for advancing progress in Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture through its pioneering Women’s Livelihood Bond^TM Series (WLB Series).

ATEC* raises funding to launch world’s first pay-as-you-go biodigester system to increase clean energy access for farmers

August 15, 2019 Press Release

SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA, 15 August 2019 – ATEC* Biodigesters International (ATEC*) – a triple bottom line impact enterprise with pioneering biodigester technology — has raised debt financing from US-based impact investor Beneficial Returns to launch the world’s first PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) model for biodigesters. Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) facilitated the deal through its Impact Partners platform—Asia’s largest crowdfunding platform for impact investing.

Woman-led Indonesian Impact Enterprise Krakakoa raises funding to improve social and environmental resilience through chocolate

July 25, 2019 Press Release

SINGAPORE AND INDONESIA, 25 July 2019 – Indonesia-based impact enterprise (IE) Krakakoa—a woman-led bean-to-bar chocolate maker—has raised funding from Singapore-based investors IIX Growth Fund and LIC VC, as well as individual impact investor and co-founder of SYSTEMIQ Jeremy Oppenheim. Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) led the investment round. On track to break even by 2020, Krakakoa will use the funding to provide 1,000 smallholder farmers and 20 female factory workers with sustainable livelihoods, and avoid over 64,000 kg of chemicals through environmentally-friendly farming methods.

IIX and UN Women partner to unlock billions in capital for millions of underserved women

July 11, 2019 Press Release

SINGAPORE AND NEW YORK, 10 July 2019 – UN Women—the UN organization dedicated to gender equality—has partnered with Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)—a global organization dedicated to changing financial systems and creating innovative solutions to women’s empowerment to mobilize large-scale capital to empower underserved women through innovative finance.

IIX awarded S$1.2M from Australian government to develop ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia

April 11, 2019 Press Release

SINGAPORE, 11 April 2019 – Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) – a global organization dedicated to building a more inclusive world through innovative finance and support for high-impact enterprises – has been awarded S$1.2M from the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to develop the ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia. With a decade of experience building the impact investing market and driving women’s empowerment across the world, IIX will leverage its ecosystem and gender-focused approach to support the growth of 500 impact enterprises across Asia.

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