How a Nepalese Bank Is Growing the Sustainable Investment Services Sector through a Global Marketplace

How a Nepalese Bank Is Growing the Sustainable Investment Services Sector through a Global Marketplace

Author: Paul Ellis June 1, 2025 Duration: 26:32
Shivanth Pande is the founder of NIMB ACE Capital, the first investment bank in Nepal to offer systematic sustainable investment plans and other financial services for employees who work for the bank’s corporate clients as well for the large underbanked population. Using a strategy that includes a variety of sustainable mutual funds, the bank now has more than 600,000 clients. In addition, Pande is the co-founder and current chairman of M! Nepal, a social venture that facilitates banks and microfinance companies in extending outreach of financial products to the poor urban and rural populations in Nepal.

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