Sentences with phrase «on social finance»

Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Releases its Report, Charities and Not - for - Profit Newsletter, December 2010

The impact investing market in Canada is currently estimated at approximately $ 2 billion and is projected to grow to approximately $ 30 billion in the next decade, according to the 2010 report by the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts, from the private, non-profit and academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010 report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

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.

The fund is managed by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, Canada's leading authority on social finance.

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Terror financing on social media can take several forms, analysts said — and donors may not even know that they're giving their money to fund violence.

Governments will likely impose more reporting obligations on social media firms in the fight against terror financing, according to Ryder.

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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.

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.

Sue Yasav is responsible for developing strategic insights through surveys, social listening and academic studies on topics related to the retail industries and consumer financing at Synchrony Financial.

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.»

For millennials «more than any other generation, social media and the allure to spend beyond their means could have long - term negative effects on their finances if they're not careful.»

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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.

FT Partners Advises Wave Accounting on its $ 10,000,000 Financing led by CRV, Social + Capital and OMERS Ventures More Info»

We're looking for people who can speak on summit topics such as fintech, crowdfinance, online lending / debt, P2P marketplaces, equity crowdfunding, royalties, new funding models, alternative finance, crowdsales (ICOs), rewards and product pre-sale, social impact, real estate, crowdsourcing, innovation and other trending topics.

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.

His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility and its relationship to firm risk, entrepreneurial finance and incentives, and financial crises.

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.

His paper on stock market liquidity and corporate governance won the Best Paper Award in Finance in Canada (ASAC 2003) and was ranked among Top Ten Download Paper at the EFMA (European Financial Management Association) 2003 meeting and SSRN (Social Science Research Network).

Dr. Seth shared a recent use case of the V - Survey tool by a social enterprise called Shubham finance that wanted to get consumer feedback on the services that they provide to the un-banked in the housing sector.

This week's guest is Josh Brown, a financial advisor and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and regular guest on CNBC's The Halftime Report, but known to most in the financial advisor community through his prolific presence on social media — including more than half a million Twitter followers — and his popular finance blog, The Reformed Broker.

For those in the personal / business finance space: Between social media and the recent success in the Fintech industry alone (i.e. payment solutions, invoicing, etc), there is a lot to keep tabs on in the coming year.

With his profound snapshots on sentiment, social psychology, behavioral finance, game theory, macroeconomics, and more, Jared gets readers thinking about the markets and trade ideas in a bold new way.

When to claim Social Security is a personal decision that depends on your finances, retirement goals, employment situation, and health.

Robyn joins Align from U.S. Trust where she served as a Vice President and Private Client Advisor and focused her wealth management practice on bridging the gap between traditional investment capital and financing social change.

Focused on directing private capital into projects and ventures whose aims are to deliver measurable social outcomes, impact investment (or social finance) has the potential to foster innovation in the social sector.

Blockchain technology can easily remedy the weaknesses of web - based social - finance apps, as the distributed apps that run on a blockchain («Dapps») provide immutability, security, privacy, and efficiency.

In Québec, assets managed by institutional investors focused on financing social businesses totaled $ 1.4 billion in 2013, an increase of 39 per cent compared to 2010.

Meanwhile, business Liberals, perhaps including Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, will likely be pushing for less social spending than promised in the platform in order to balance the books on the original schedule.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

However, the Liberal platform also envisaged temporary deficits to finance higher spending on social programs such as child benefits, a higher Guaranteed Income Supplement for single seniors, public health care, child care and First Nations programs, and did not increase overall federal tax revenues.

For example, micro-finance and social investment establishments that offer basic financial services and FinTech companies that are leveraging information technology to enhance access to finance to those that currently rely on informal markets would contribute to more business, employment, income generation and, hence, less poverty.

Octopus Investments also invests, on behalf of its customers, in a range of different businesses and industries through its Ventures and Specialist Finance Teams, these will include construction of housing, schools and hospitals, delivery of tech solutions to every day services (such as entertainment, property and social), food distribution, private jet services, chauffeur services, distribution of healthcare products.

In addition, increasing taxes on the rich would help Social Security's finances but would not fully ensure 75 - year solvency and would become a more inadequate solution over time, especially if it is enacted along with benefit increases.

ICOs still make lawmakers mad Congressman Brad Sherman, said that cryptocurrencies are «popular with guys who want to sit in their pajamas and tell their wives they're going to be millionaires,» adding that buying digital tokens doesn't finance anything in the real - world economy, but is «gambling on its value with no social benefit.»

«The whole goal is building one team with one culture and one purpose, but the capability in Denver is around digital social influencer marketing, and innovation - all around D [Katz]; whereas in Huntington [Long Island] we'll focus on product supply, and running sales and finance.»

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The directive, issued on August 30 2017, and signed by the Acting Head of Finance and Administration, Atakora Kodua, said the picture posted on social media, made mockery of the first gentlemen of the land, hence the decision to suspend him indefinitely.

Questions - electoral register and young people, Severn Barrage, European Development Fund Debate - local government finance settlement Debate - impact on families of changes to tax and benefits Short debate - use of online tools, including social media, to combat youth unemployment

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust warned: «Any future finance system that deters poorer students from top degree courses because of spiralling costs and freezes on student numbers will be a double blow for social mobility.

Although it was evident that nobody in the NDC referred to Franklyn Templeton as a person, the Finance Minister conveniently insisted that the minority was talking about an individual which was continuation of what the NPP communicators started on social media, the former talk show host asserted.

Second, Ed Miliband's Labour was highly divided on how to achieve the equilibrium between the two elements in the golden formula of social justice and healthy finances.

In the governor's 90 - minute speech, just over one minute was spent rehashing ethics and campaign finance proposals and another minute was devoted to a proposal for reporting requirements for political ads on social media.

The state's financing includes: $ 10.45 million in bond financing through the HCR's Housing Finance Agency; a $ 4.25 million Medicaid Redesign Team loan provided by the New York State Department of Health; and the New York State Office of Mental Health is funding the on - site social services.

Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has distanced herself from the Atiku Abubakar / Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala campaign posters, which showed up on social media sites.