Blue Orchard’s Alessandra Nibbio Bonnet & Valerie Harrington on impact investing

Alessandra and Valerie introduce BlueOrchard on their 20th anniversary of impact investing and now being a part of the Schroders Group (00:55), how they work with DFIs and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in their blended finance strategies (03:25), the importance of adhering to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) of the Article 9 standard issued by the European Supervisory Authorities as required by their DFI partners (05:30), how technical assistance facilities and other DFI structures including ‘first loss’ can attract impact investors to blended finance projects (07:18), 

how BlueOrachard worked with DFIs to structure initiatives to help support their clients very quickly during the Covid 19 pandemic (09:55), supporting education in Africa (13:00), the DFIs they are working with in the successful second closing of their USD$ 200m Covid-19 support fund (15:39), and the future of the blended finance impact investment industry to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (17:13).