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Unlocking Capital Flows: Solving Liquidity Challenges for Impact Investments in Emerging Markets

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 From 13:00 to 14:30 (CET) Centre International de Conférences Genève - Room F (Level 3)
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Emerging Markets Impact Investing Innovative Finance & Fintech Systemic Change

Despite the growth of impact investing over the past years, its expansion is impeded by its limited liquidity. Long holding periods, the lack of secondary markets, and foreign currency risks constrain the flow of impact capital, especially into emerging markets. To catalyze sustained capital flows into emerging and developing economies (EMDEs), there is a clear need for innovative financial structures and liquidity-enhancing mechanisms that can ease capital constraints and create more flexible exit pathways for impact investors. By creating more dynamic exit pathways and addressing market inefficiencies, such innovations can expand the pool of investors willing to allocate to impact, improve capital recycling, and accelerate the deployment of resources to regions where they are most needed.


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This event will convene experts and practitioners to examine and seek solutions to the root causes of illiquidity in impact investing in EMDEs, such as limited exit pathways and underdeveloped secondary markets. By convening a diverse group of stakeholders such as stock exchanges, policymakers, and investors, the session aims to foster a transparent and solutions-oriented dialogue to advance market development and capital mobilization. A panel discussion of experts will be followed by moderated group sessions to generate insights and identify potential solutions. The event will conclude with a summary of the key points and possible next steps toward implementation.