The case for social and green finances that help ignite faster progress toward the SDGs, and create long-lasting socioeconomic impact for millions of people worldwide is overwhelming and persuasive.
High Impact Capital Advisors and China Associationof Microfinance Association jointly hosteda special roundtable luncheon on Inclusive Finance in August 23, 2016 at theCapital Club in Beijing.
The luncheon aims tofoster sharing and exchanging ideas oncontinued development of microfinance and financial inclusion among top executives of majormicrofinance institutions in China. More thanthirty guests including the Honorable Mr. Wim Kok former Prime Minister of The Netherlands, Mr. Du Xiaoshan, Chairman ofChina Association of Microfinance, Mr.Steven Ying, Managing Partner of High Impact Capital Advisors; Mr. Chen Jianxiong, Vice President of China Orient AssetManagement Company; and etc. attendedthe event.
High Impact Capital Advisors LTD. launched four major initiatives with Hainan Rural Bank to cement the strategic partnership between the two Companies; co-hosting a sub-forum and a post-forum reception on Inclusive Finance at the Boao Annual Forum in Hainan Province on March 22; signing of a strategic agreement for helping Hainan Rural Bank raise capitals to fuel the growth of microfinance businesses in Hong Kong on April 8; and hosting a CEO luncheon at Asia Society Center in Hong Kong as well as a gala dinner at China Club for The Honorable Wim Kok, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands and Mr. Wu Weixiong, Chairman of Hainan Rural Bank in Hong Kong on April 19, 2016.
On January 21, 2016, High Impact Capital Advisors LTD. led a delegation of social impact investors including the Asian Development Bank and BNP Paribas for a field mission visited China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation Microfinance Co. (CFPA Microfinance) branch office in Luanping County of Hebei Province, approximately 200 km north of Beijing. The visit aims to help the delegation memebrs develop first hand experience as to how microfinance is being practiced at the ground level including a meeting with Heads of Luanping County government, CFPA Microfinance branch managers and the staff in the morning followed by a lunch hosted by Luanping County government officals. In the afternoon, five CFPA Microfinance customers invited the delegation to their homes and shared their amazing entrepreneurial stories with the delegates.
The third East-West Philanthropists Summit jointly held by China Global Philanthropy Institute and East-West Center was successfully conducted between 7-9 January, 2016 in Hawaii, United States. Nearly 100 philanthropists from China and US joined this 3-day event, including the members of the Rockefeller family, representatives from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Niu Gensheng and Ms. He Qiaonv. Mr. Steven Ying, the Managing Director of High Impact Capital Advisors LTD. attended the meeting as a panelist for discussion on “Global Innovation and Collaboration on the Microfinance Sector".
High Impact Capital Advisors hosted two events to help promote continued development of the impact investing sector in Beijing on December 17, 2015. First, a luncheon with the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Kok joined by Mr. Ying and Prof. Wang Zhenyao for the JingShi Philanthropy Seminar Series with more than one hundred student audiences at Beijing Normal University. At the conclusion of the JingShi Philanthropy Seminar, Mr. Kok and Mr. Ying made a non-stop visit for the second event at the headquarters of CFPA Microfinance for an employees all-hands meeting.
