Devika Misra of MSN’s 938LIVE interviews IIX founder Durreen Shahnaz for the series “News Analysis.”
“Singapore has two trading exchanges- one for stocks and shares and another for commodities. But could it soon have a third platform ? One with a difference… An exchange thats not purely financial. One that aims to bring about social betterment.”
Listen [...]

On September 5, IIX’s Mona Sinha and Natalie Williams will present the mission and future of the Impact Investment Exchange to the Hong Kong chapter of 85 Broads, a global network that focuses on investing in women’s opportunities. See below for event details.
The 85 Broads Hong Kong Chapter
· presents ·
Sunday Brunch Speaker Series:
Capital Markets for Social Good
Join us on [...]

Asia IIX Founder Durreen Shahnaz, Aidha President Sarah Mavrinac, and Carbon Conservation CEO Doriee Sun participate in a conversation hosted by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Timor Leste President Jose Ramos–Horta.
The four will be the main speakers for Qi Global’s 2010 conference: The Annual Asian Summit for Sustainable Innovation, to be held in Singapore on [...]

Durreen Shahnaz, founder and chairman of Impact Investment Exchange spoke to TED about her experiences from Wall Street to Grameen Bank and what propelled her next project: a stock exchange for socially conscious companies. You can read more at http://blog.ted.com/2010/07/30/fellows-friday-with-durreen-shahnaz/

Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and Chairman of Impact Investment Exchange Asia, spoke at the GSVC Symposium on 19th March in Bangkok. Click on the following link to listen to the talk:  http://is.gd/aRt3z.

We expected the usual power suit, but Durreen Shahnaz, the founder and chairperson
of what is to be a new stock exchange come 2011, is wearing a vegetable dyed sari instead.
Its material so light and supple, it flutters in the breeze.
The image is powerful. The ex-investment banker and high flying media exec turned entrepreneur is, indeed, the face of a kinder and more conscious form of capitalism. Her
Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) — Asia’s first social stock exchange — will be a capital market for social good. It is a lofty goal, but Shahnaz has never
known how to aim for anything less.

A radically new form of social investment, championed by the century-old Rockefeller Foundation, the much younger Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and even financial powerhouses like Citigroup, is gaining followers. Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of the US-based Rockefeller Foundation, shared with Naren Karunakaran ideas about the changing landscape of the philanthropic world.