Sentences with phrase «of social financing»

This kind of social financing creates better interest rates for the borrower and fewer defaults for the lender.

About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada.

About the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing works to increase the awareness and the effectiveness of social finance with the aim of driving new capital, talent, and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems.

Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance, which directs new capital, talent and initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing social and environmental problems.

The origins of Social Finance date back to a Stanford Business School graduate and his friends» efforts to balance new jobs with their incredible student loan debt.

«SoFi» is a registered trademark of Social Finance, Inc..

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Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

It accepts that the consumption of goods and services almost always has a sometimes latent social component no matter what vertical you serve: education, healthcare, cooking, sports, finance, arts, entertainment, fashion, etc..

Social Finance: Unlocking the Potential for Developmental Lending, a new research report conducted my firm Impakt, reveals that the Indian Business Corporation, a company owned by the three treaty areas of Alberta, has pioneered an approach called «developmental lending» that is providing aboriginal entrepreneurs such as Ms. Saliwonczyk with capital to create new businesses, or maintain or expand existing ones.

Social The FreshWorks Fund has financed 22 food projects, impacting more than 2.3 million people, and aims to fund a total of 50 to 60 new grocery businesses by 2015.

Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to accept the role of chief executive officer at Social Finance Inc., according to both companies.

According to the Global Well - Being Index, people say their most important concerns in life are community, finances, physical health, sense of purpose and a happening social life.

As a founder of several start - ups, my responsibilities have ranged from CEO to marketing, finance, project management, grant writing, social media, videography, design and, most recently, technology so I could customize our websites.

Fundraising through social media is an emerging terrorist financing risk, but traditional methods like bank transfers, remittances and cash remain key avenues of funding, according to a report by intergovernmental organization the Financial Action Task Force.

There is a behavioral aspect to Social Security claiming, according to Tim Maurer, CFP, director of personal finance with The BAM Alliance.

It spent a further 140 million roubles in 2016 for general financing of social programmes across Russia, the report said.

The various «core» components are captured by Total Social Financing (TSF) data, an official gauge that provides a measure of credit and liquidity supplied by the entire financial system in China.

Increasingly, major social and business problems call for managers to integrate a toolbox of skills from finance to healthcare.

With just a fraction of startups receiving venture capital financing, approach your social circles, with these five pointers in mind.

China's total social financing (TSF), a broad measure of credit and liquidity in the economy, surged to 3.06 trillion yuan in January from 1.14 trillion yuan in December, additional data showed on Monday.

«Monetary policy will not be too tight or too loose,» Yi said, adding that growth in M2 money supply and total social financing — a broad measure of credit — will be at a reasonable pace this year.

In a world of digital transactions, however, you have «no real feel for what you're spending,» says Bloch, who did research in behavioral finance at the University of Florida before embarking on a career that has included turns as a corporate accountant, personal finance video - blogger and founder of a social media marketing company.

That's why American companies lead a wide range of industries, from information technology, e-commerce, and social media to finance, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, consumer products, automobiles, farm equipment, and aircraft.

«Fintech» companies have been in the dumps lately, as Mike Cagney, CEO of a lender called Social Finance, or SoFi, is the first to tell you.

In the latest example of Toronto's burgeoning start - up community, last week video - based social networking platform Keek received $ 5.5 million in financing from a consortium of investors led by AlphaNorth Asset Management and Plazacorp Ventures.

In the same way that ecommerce and social media changed the way many small companies sell and advertise their goods, the sale of private company shares online (also known as equity crowdfunding) is changing the way small companies finance themselves.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

SoundCloud, the Berlin - based music streaming startup that also serves as an audio social network of sorts, announced this morning that it had raised $ 35 million in debt financing.

His company started life hosting parties for recent graduates of prestigious universities (hence «Social»)-- and offering to help them repay their student loans at lower rates («Finance»).

The British consumer finance expert and TV personality Martin Lewis has long had an issue with Facebook — the social network keeps running scammy ads that feature his face in order to create the impression of credibility.

Jon Steinberg is the president & chief operating officer of BuzzFeed and is responsible for all business management, company operations, finance, and social advertising operations.

Speaking in Berlin after meeting with members of the center - left Social Democratic Party, Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands, the leader of the eurozone finance ministers, criticized Mr. Schäuble for raising the suggestion of a Greek exit.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

Finance Minister Paul Martin's policies did more damage to the social policy infrastructure and the standard of living of Canadians than anything Mulroney did.

Many Social Democratic and Labour parties have jumped on the bandwagon of finance capital, not recognizing the need to rescue industrial capitalism from dependence on neofeudal finance capital before the older conflict between labor and industrial capital over wage levels and working conditions can be resumed.

He is the recipient of the prestigious Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for his research on corporate social responsibility and firm risk.

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA Canada) is a cross-Canada non-profit actively engaged with both social and investment crowdfunding, alternative finance, fintech, P2P and online investing stakeholders across the country.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

SoFi, short for Social Finance, is one of the largest student loan refinancing companies in the industry.

The Centre builds on the foundational work of MaRS and Social Innovation Generation (SiG), including the landmark report by the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

«Supporting the creation of a strong and vibrant social finance marketplace is a key component of Ontario's Social Enterprise Strategy, which is helping Ontario's social enterprises get the tools and resources they need to grow and succeed,» Minister Hoskinssocial finance marketplace is a key component of Ontario's Social Enterprise Strategy, which is helping Ontario's social enterprises get the tools and resources they need to grow and succeed,» Minister HoskinsSocial Enterprise Strategy, which is helping Ontario's social enterprises get the tools and resources they need to grow and succeed,» Minister Hoskinssocial enterprises get the tools and resources they need to grow and succeed,» Minister Hoskins said.

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Around 2005, as John and Sue Smythe of Everett, Wash., approached retirement age, they assessed their finances and decided a couple of things: Social Security benefits wouldn't be enough to sustain them; and they wanted a consistent source of recurring revenue they could depend on and plan for.

Personal finance expert Rob Carrick discusses how social media and the fear of missing out, can affect your finances with Shannon Lee Simmons, author of «Worry - Free Money».

Thomas Gass, assistant secretary - general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.

In 2002, if I remember correctly, bank lending represented 93 % of aggregate financing as defined by the PBoC as total social financing.

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada is the leading and only nationally organized non-profit working with over 1300 social and investment stakeholders across the country, and the national voice of an industry that is fast becoming an integral part of the start - up financing ecosystem.

A day earlier, the People's Bank of China (PBoC) announced that total social financing (TSF) in 2017 had increased to 19.44 trillion renminbi.