Social Finance Round Up: Social Impact Bonds Cross the Atlantic

SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of February 14, 2011.

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What’s Needed to Get the Full Attention of Bay Street?

Over the last month, I have been lucky to have the opportunity to “talk social investing” with professionals in portfolio management, private equity, investment banking and consulting. Overwhelmingly, the message was positive and clear – building a Social Venture Exchange (SVX) and consolidating social finance knowledge will accelerate social finance adoption in Canada.

But reading between the lines, I also heard people saying: We are enthusiastic, but we need you to..

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