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Malcolm Hayday
INAISE conference holds out prospect of socially inclusive banking order
In recent years Mexico has earned a certain financial notoriety, whether from the Compartamos IPO or the alleged money-laundering activities of HSBC and others. The World Bank considers Mexico to be an ‘advanced middle income …
From fragmentation to function?
In 2007 the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship published a working paper by Jed Emerson and Joshua Spitzer entitled From Fragmentation to Function. As I cleared my office cupboards to make way for my successor …
NESsT doing a great job but social enterprise needs more actors
If you Google social enterprise development in Hungary you get singular references to the CEE Trust and the Euclid Network but almost all the content comes from NESsT, which began its work with nascent social …
NESsT doing a great job but social enterprise needs more actors
If you Google social enterprise development in Hungary you get singular references to the CEE Trust and the Euclid Network but almost all the content comes from NESsT, which began its work with nascent social …
NESsT doing a great job but social enterprise needs more actors
If you Google social enterprise development in Hungary you get singular references to the CEE Trust and the Euclid Network but almost all the content comes from NESsT, which began its work with nascent social …
Is more debt the answer?
Clara Miller’s perspective (in her article in the June issue of Alliance) is an important wake-up call for the developing social finance market. Charity Bank’s experience is that her observations are not uniquely American. Debt …
What role for social banks in overhaul of financial sector?
Meeting in Brussels in January, the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers (FEBEA) saw an important role for social banks in overhauling the financial sector. But there are barriers to social banks …
Hong Kong’s first social enterprise conference
At the start of April, I was one of four speakers from Britain who joined panellists from Harvard, Taiwan and Hong Kong and some 300 delegates at Hong Kong’s first social enterprise conference. The initiative …
Finance for a sustainable world
The INAISE annual meeting at the new, environmentally friendly headquarters of Banque Populaire du Haut Rhin,[1] drew over 100 social bankers, advocates, policymakers, practitioners and other interested parties from around the world. What they had …
Tobin Tax – the next campaign after Jubilee 2000?
The overall feeling at the UN Special Session convened in Geneva at the end of June, five years on from Copenhagen, to assess progress towards the international social development targets was one of disappointment: a …
