The Green Finance Institute (GFI), in partnership with the University of Leeds, today launches new research showing Community Municipal Investments (CMIs) have matured into a credible, scalable and value-for-money addition to the local authority borrowing toolkit. Arranged through Abundance Investment’s FCA-regulated platform and championed by the GFI since first launched in 2020, CMIs are a form of local authority borrowing that enables councils to raise capital directly from citizens and mission-aligned investors to fund local infrastructure and regeneration projects. The paper, “Community Municipal Investments – Bringing the Benefits of NS&I…
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