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简化环保产品投资过程的技术平台Spark Change今天宣布完成了巴克雷银行领投的450万美元（350万英镑）投资。FinLab EOS VC Fund （Block.one和FinLab AG合资）和Solactive AG也参与了本次投资。
市场上已经有新一类的环保金融产品，既能产生巨大的环境影响，同时又不影响收益，Spark Change的技术就让投资者可以获得这些产品。企业的服务的对象是全球希望寻找新方法，满足全球应对气候变化目标的同时获得经济收益的各大金融机构及其客户。
“对Spark Change这类经济科技公司进行种子轮投资也是在帮巴克雷进一步开展其主张，这次是在技术创新和环保金融结合的这个领域。”巴克雷本金投资的Ryan Hayward说。
“Spark Change让机构和企业能够轻易获得和开发自己创新的ESG（环境、社会和企业治理）投资产品给客户。这就是很有说服力的主张了。”
Spark Change平台让投资者能够直接获得现实实体碳配额的价值。公司现在在伦敦、西雅图和波士顿都有办公室，它说，越来越多机构的资产管理经理想要获得收益、对冲碳价风险或达到ESG基准。
“Spark Change的技术和产品扩大了环保投资产品的边界，这个价值主张和Solactive创造性破坏的使命是一致的。”Solactive的首席执行官Steffen Scheuble说。
“我们期待着支持这场旅行、期待为我们的客户提供创造性的ESG解决方案的新工具。”
FinLab EOS VC Fund的常务董事Stefan Schuetze补充道，“我们用资金和投资支持EOSIO生态，作为其支持者，我们很高兴能投资Spark Change，它利用了分布式账本技术带来下一代、创造重要环境影响的金融产品。”
根据晨星公司数据，ESG基金在2020年第一个季度吸引了456亿美元的收入。该公司在不断扩大自己的团队、满足这个不断增长的需求。
公司董事长Daniel Barry说，公司会利用这笔投资在今年晚些时候启动第一轮产品。
“创造Spark Change是为了应对市场上缺少的创新的、能够获得实体碳配额的环保金融产品。”Barry说。
“Spark Change带来的更大的影响也超过了我们核心技术现在有的东西，我们可以把实体碳配额的价值加到任何权益或固定收入资产组合中。机构不断增长的需求说明我们被困在世界各地都有的问题之中。我们相信，市场驱动的压力与我们的平台结合之后能够直接影响碳价并带来巨大的环境优势。”
FinLab的常务董事Stefan Schuetze和美国连续创业者Paul Stahura将会加入董事会，同时，巴克雷欧洲和亚洲战略性投资部门总监Ryan Hayward会担任董事会观察员。参与这轮投资和之前投资的投资者还包括Techstars，Swing Ventures， Librae Holdings （Vincent Tchenguiz是受益人之一的自由裁量信托的信托受托人所有）以及天使投资人Matthew Le Merle 和 Chris Adelsbach。
关于 Spark Change
Spark Change是一个技术平台，它简化了获得环保金融产品的过程，这些产品的设计目的是加快让世界过渡到低碳经济。更多信息请访问www.sparkchange.io
关于 Barclays
巴克雷是英国一家全能银行。我们有多种业务、有不同类型的顾客和客户、还在不同地方开展活动。我们的业务包括全球零售银行和支付结算，同时也包括顶层、全面服务、全球企业和投资银行，上述服务都由我们的服务公司支持，它向整个集团提供技术、运营和功能性服务。
关于 Solactive
Solactive是欧洲获奖的独立客户指数和金融科技解决方案提供方。该公司在几个资产类别中开发、计算和推广成本效益指数，如权益、固定收入、商品指数。Solactive总部在法兰克福，它在全球开展业务，在加拿大和中国香港还有办公室。
关于 Block.one and EOS VC
Block.one的EOS VC项目为利用 EOSIO的开发者和创业家提供资金，帮助他们实现以社区为导向的业务。它通过风投合作伙伴基金对建立在EOSIO之上的企业进行投资和提供支持。获得更多信息，请访问Block.one 和 vc.eos.io。
关于 FinLab AG
上市公司FinLab AG WKN 121806 / ISIN DE0001218063 / 股票代码：A7A)是欧洲金融服务科技（FinTech）和区块链领域最初也是最大的投资人。
这个背景下，FinLab关注的是为初创企业提供风投。FinLab的目标是长期参与其投资的企业，并为它们提供不断的支持。因此，FinLab在其投资公司的不同发展阶段会提供网络和技术支持。此外，FinLab也是资产管理公司，其管理的资产范围高达上亿美元。
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Spark Change, the technology platform that simplifies investing in green financial products, today announced the close of a $4.5m (£3.5m) funding round led by Barclays. FinLab EOS VC Fund (a partnership with Block.one and FinLab AG) and Solactive AG also participated in the round.
Spark Change’s technology creates access to a new class of green financial products that target significant environmental impact at scale without compromising returns. The company serves a global audience of financial institutions and their customers who are seeking new ways to meet their financial objectives in a manner consistent with the world’s climate change goals.
“By making a seed investment in a FinTech business like Spark Change, Barclays is helping the company further develop its proposition at the exciting intersection of tech innovation and green finance,” said Ryan Hayward, Principal Investments at Barclays.
“Spark Change lets institutions and companies easily gain access to and develop their own innovative ESG investment products to offer their customers. That’s a compelling proposition.”
Spark Change’s platform provides investors with direct exposure to the value of physical carbon emission allowances. The firm, with offices in London, Seattle and Boston, said it is seeing increased demand from institutional portfolio managers looking to capture returns, hedge their carbon price exposure or meet ESG benchmarks.
“Spark Change’s technology and products extend the boundaries of green investment products – a value proposition that aligns with Solactive’s disruptive mission,” said Steffen Scheuble, Chief Executive of Solactive.
“We look forward to supporting this journey and providing our clients with these new tools for innovative ESG solutions.”
Stefan Schuetze, Managing Director of FinLab EOS VC Fund, added: “As a supporter of the EOSIO ecosystem with our fund and investments, we are excited to invest in Spark Change, which leverages distributed ledger technology to enable the next generation of financial products creating significant environmental impact.”
According to Morningstar, ESG funds attracted $45.6 billion of inflows in Q1 2020. The company is rapidly scaling its team to meet this growing demand.
Chairman Daniel Barry said the company will use the funding to launch its first range of products later this year.
“We created Spark Change to address the lack of innovative green financial products that provides exposure to physical carbon allowances,” said Barry.
“The greater impact of Spark Change extends beyond what we have already built in our core technology, where we can overlay exposure to the value of physical carbon allowances into any equity or fixed income portfolio. The growing demand from institutions illustrates we’ve struck a chord that resonates around the world. We believe that market-driven pressures combined with our platform can directly impact the price of carbon and create significant environmental benefit.”
Stefan Schuetze, Managing Director of FinLab, and US serial entrepreneur Paul Stahura, will join the board of directors, while Ryan Hayward, Head of Strategic Investments for Europe and Asia at Barclays, will join as board observer. Other investors in the current and previous rounds include Techstars, Swing Ventures, Librae Holdings, which is owned by the trustees of a discretionary trust of which Vincent Tchenguiz is a beneficiary, and angel investors Matthew Le Merle and Chris Adelsbach.
About Spark Change
Spark Change is a technology platform that simplifies access to green financial products designed to accelerate the world’s transition to a low carbon economy. For more information visit www.sparkchange.io.
About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customer and client, and geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
About Solactive
Solactive is Europe’s award-winning and independent custom index and FinTech solutions provider. The company develops, calculates, and markets cost-efficient indices over several asset classes, e.g., Equity, Fixed-Income, and Commodity indices. With its headquarters in Frankfurt, Solactive operates on a global basis with offices in Canada and Hong Kong.
About Block.one and EOS VC
Block.one’s EOS VC program offers developers and entrepreneurs the funding they need to create community-driven businesses leveraging EOSIO. It makes investments and provides support to companies building on EOSIO software through its venture capital partnership funds. For further information, please visit Block.one and vc.eos.io.
About FinLab AG
Stock market listed company FinLab AG (WKN 121806 / ISIN DE0001218063 / ticker symbol: A7A) is one of the first and largest investors focused on the Financial Services Technologies (“FinTech”) and blockchain sector in Europe.
FinLab’s focus in this context is providing venture capital for start-ups. FinLab’s aim is long-term participation and ongoing support of its investments. FinLab in this regard supports its investments in their respective development phase with their network and know-how. In addition, FinLab acts as an asset manager and manages assets in the three-digit million-dollar range.
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