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Social Stock Exchanges

Catalyst for Impact Investing?

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  • Presents the antecedents and prerequisites to the implementation of social stock exchanges (SSE)
  • Discusses the impact of Finance 2.0, exponential tech and cryptocurrency
  • Discusses the case for funding platforms for impact investing

Part of the book series: Sustainable Finance (SUFI)

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About this book

This book examines funding platforms for impact investing known as social stock exchanges (SSE) and ways to approach impact investing at regulated traditional exchanges. The book analyses the antecedents and prerequisites for the successful implementation of SSEs. It presents the creation of SSEs as a necessary step towards a more democratic and popular impact investing market, and a way to align the asset search process for investors with capital access for entrepreneurs. It also analyses the installation of impact investing at traditional stock exchanges drawing from Green Bonds and Social Bonds.

The book showcases successful financial structuring, integrating impact into existing financial products. It discusses standalone impact solutions, the status quo of impact investing, social entrepreneurship and the pros and cons of platforms versus the use of traditional stock exchanges for impact investing. It highlights aspects of adjusted portfolio and product structuring, innovation in the context of listing criteria and makes proposals for impact stock listings at platforms and traditional stock exchanges. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sustainable Finance C/O, Eccos Impact GmbH, Cham, Switzerland

    Karen Wendt

About the author

Karen Wendt holds an MBA of the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies of LiverpoolUniversity. She is the handling editor of th Springer sustainable Finance book series and has
published in the filed of responsible investment banking, positive impact investing, and sustainable
financial innovation. She has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking with UniCredit
and has been introducing the first effective sustainability standard in investment and banking: the
Equator Principles in two top tier financial institutions. She has co-created the Equator Principles and
has been sitting on the board of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Association (EPFI
Association. She is a internationally recognized expert for, sustainable finance and positive impact
investing an inspiring lecturer at internationally recognized universities, prominent Key Note Speaker
and serial entrepreneur. She has become the leading authority on integral investing, new forms of
investment and finance understanding impact investors preferences and characteristics advocating to
reinvent investment and finance. With her new monograph on social stock exchanges she moves
beyond the current narratives and provides target knowledge answering research question why
matching assets that create positive impact with investors is necessary and how it can be done in a
manner that is efficient, effective, transparent and scalable. In other words, Karen with her research is exploring ways to redirect investment and finance, to impact oriented investments compatible with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement turning around the investmentphilosophy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Stock Exchanges

  • Book Subtitle: Catalyst for Impact Investing?

  • Authors: Karen Wendt

  • Series Title: Sustainable Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99720-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99719-9Published: 31 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99722-9Published: 01 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99720-5Published: 30 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2522-8285

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-8293

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 103

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Capital Markets, Business Finance, Business Strategy/Leadership, Entrepreneurship

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