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In Financial Services Innovation, Look to Asia to Set the Pace
It may sound strange, but many of us fortunate enough to live and work in Asia at this point in time
have learned to take innovation for granted.
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Financial innovations can open the market to wider disaster coverage, Milken Institute report says
LOS ANGELES — Catastrophic losses from the Northridge earthquake, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and
widespread flooding in the early 1990s prompted many insurers to look for new market-based solutions to provide coverage in hazardous markets.
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Financial innovations can help preserve cultural heritage and slow illicit antiquities trade, according to Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES — Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the illicit antiquitie
s trade has grown into a $4-billion market that has left behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation.
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Milken Institute report examines new regulatory models and financial innovations to fund U.S. smart grid and energy needs
LOS ANGELES — The U.S.
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Financial innovations can help produce new medicines through funding of early-stage drug development, Milken Institute report says
Despite the enormous potential of biomedical research to cure disease, public and private funding ha
s declined — a trend that could jeopardize efforts to find improved treatments for people with life-threatening illnesses.
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Delivery of food assistance to world's hungry could improve through the innovative use of financial tools, says new report from Milken Institute
(LOS ANGELES) Global food assistance saves millions of lives every year, but millions more could be
saved through innovation in funding, supply and delivery systems.
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Financial Markets Can Be a Stabilizing Force in an Uncertain World
As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, I remember vividly the long queues for basic groce
ries in the biting cold of a Russian winter., Financial markets can be an effective mechanism for driving innovation and change.
, We also witness that when populations have an agenda that’s important to them—such as addressing the climate crisis—financial markets can be an effective mechanism for driving innovation and change: whether it is banks working to expand carbon credit sc
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How Universities Drive Innovation in Aging
Aging is big business.
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Financial Inclusion at the Frontier: Exploring the Landscape of Digital Asset Regulation in Africa
Forty-seven percent of Nigerians reportedly use cryptocurrencies, one of the highest rates in the wo
rld.
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Creating Markets for Medical Innovation with Lower Commercial Potential
The biopharmaceutical industry is in a period of transition.
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Milken Institute FinTech Advisory Council 2023: Financial Inclusion in Focus
In This Issue
Foreword from Milken Institute FinTech Director, Nicole Valentine
Inclusion
at Scale: Innovative Financial Systems with Jo Ann Barefoot
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Milken Institute Report: Innovative Financing Can Help Rebuild Northern Israel
JERUSALEM — One year after the Second Lebanon War, northern Israel continues to suffer from high une
mployment, high poverty rates and a lack of infrastructure needed to help rebuild the war-torn region.
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