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The Milken Institute Finance pillar addresses challenges across the financial system to increase access to capital, savings, and investments, particularly for underserved individuals, businesses, and communities. Our thought leadership, research, and insights influence private sector practices and public sector policies that improve equitable access, efficiency, and reliability of financial markets and institutions.
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Bridging the Affordable Senior Housing Gap for the ‘Forgotten Middle’: An Investment Opportunity
As the older adult population rises, affordable housing for middle-income seniors becomes critical. Caught between government aid thresholds and luxury pricing, millions face limited options. Explore how innovative financing and care models can create sustainable, accessible solutions. Read the full article to learn more.
Finance Portfolios
We work within six portfolio areas: 10,000 Communities; Financial Innovations Labs; FinTech and Innovation; Geo-Economics, Climate Resilience, and Innovation; Inclusive Capitalism; and Lifetime Financial Security.
Featured Thought Leadership
Bridging the Affordable Senior Housing Gap for the ‘Forgotten Middle’: An Investment Opportunity
The UN International Day of Care and Support serves as a reminder of the contributions and burdens of both paid and unpaid care workers. As the older adult population grows, it is vital to invest in a robust care economy that promotes the...Read ArticleImage
Ivy Hsu
Senior Associate, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute FinanceIvy Hsu is a senior associate of innovative finance at the Milken Institute. During Hsu’s time at the Institute, she has worked on projects around structuring sustainable funding models for new antibiotics to help curb antimicrobial resistance and streamlining the sustainable bond market for municipal issuers.
FinTech in Focus: AI in Finance at DC Tech and Venture, Embedded Finance, FinTech FAQs: Cryptocurrency Taxation
In This Newsletter AI in Finance at DC Tech and Venture Embedded Finance FinTech FAQs: Cryptocurrency Taxation AI in Finance at DC Tech and Venture At the DC Tech and Venture FinTech Summit in early September, Milken Institute’s Maxwell...Read ArticleImage
Maxwell DeGregorio
Associate, FinTech, Milken Institute FinanceMaxwell DeGregorio is an associate at MI Finance at the Milken Institute. DeGregorio works on the Institute’s FinTech Program, which focuses on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance, and transparency. He writes the “FinTech in Focus” newsletter and co-programs the Institute’s FinTech content.
Preparing for the New Hurricane Reality
We are living in a new storm reality. Science points to a continued rise in global temperatures, warming water bodies that fuel hurricanes, the biggest storms known to humans, bringing strong winds, heavy rain, and storm surges. Indeed...Read ArticleImage
Kanika Singh
Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute FinanceKanika Singh is director of innovative finance at the Milken Institute. She is responsible for executing the Institute's signature research projects, the Financial Innovations Labs, with a specific focus on the market failures and financing gaps in climate solutions.
The Role of Solar Energy in Electricity Decarbonization
The 2016 Paris Agreement set greenhouse gas reduction targets for nearly every country in the world with the goal of limiting global temperature, which has been rising rapidly since 1980. According to most experts, the most viable roadmap...Read Article
Milken-Motsepe Prize in FinTech Announces 10 Semifinalists
October 16, 2024 (Washington, DC) — The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation announced the 10 teams advancing to the Semifinalist Round of the Milken-Motsepe Prize in FinTech, with each team receiving $100,000 in funding. Responding...Read ArticleImage
Mala Persaud
Director, Communications, Milken Institute PhilanthropyMala Persaud is the director of communications for Milken Institute Philanthropy. A former journalist, Persaud is a mission-driven communications leader with expertise in science and health communications.
FinTech in Focus — October 8, 2024
In This Newsletter Tech in Rwanda AI at the Asia Summit Election Event Contracts The Emerging Tech Ecosystem in Rwanda In a conversation with Milken Institute CEO Rich Ditizio at the 2024 Milken Institute Asia Summit, President Paul Kagame...Read ArticleImageMaxwell DeGregorio
Associate, FinTech, Milken Institute FinanceMaxwell DeGregorio is an associate at MI Finance at the Milken Institute. DeGregorio works on the Institute’s FinTech Program, which focuses on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance, and transparency. He writes the “FinTech in Focus” newsletter and co-programs the Institute’s FinTech content.
FinTech in Focus — September 24, 2024
In This Newsletter FinTech in Argentina SEC Leadership Scenarios under the Next Administration DeFi Policy FinTech in Argentina This October, the Milken Institute will co-host a roundtable in Buenos Aires on “FinTech in Latin America” as...Read ArticleImageMaxwell DeGregorio
Associate, FinTech, Milken Institute FinanceMaxwell DeGregorio is an associate at MI Finance at the Milken Institute. DeGregorio works on the Institute’s FinTech Program, which focuses on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance, and transparency. He writes the “FinTech in Focus” newsletter and co-programs the Institute’s FinTech content.
Decarbonizing Electricity in the US: A Regional Overview of the American Energy Transition
In Decarbonizing Electricity in the US: A Regional Overview of the American Energy Transition, we analyze the progress in decarbonizing the electricity sector in the United States at both a national and state-by-state level. We document...View ResearchProtecting Americans’ Retirement Savings from Politics Act (H.R. 4767)
The Honorable Mike Johnson Speaker US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Leader US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 RE: Protecting Americans’ Retirement Savings from Politics...Read Letter
The Milken Institute Launches 2025 Cohort Application for its Newly Expanded HBCU Fellowship Program
Washington, D.C. (September 10, 2024)—The Milken Institute is proud to announce the opening of the 2025 cohort application for its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Fellowship program. Through its rigorous eight-week...Read ArticleThe HBCU program will move from a one-year program to a multi-year commitment to help students secure full-time job offers.
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Chad Clinton
Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
Insights on Investments in Food Systems Transformation: Pathways to COP30
This brief synthesizes those conversations into four key themes related to the trends, challenges, and opportunities for public, private, and nonprofit capital to drive food systems transformation.Read Report
The Power of Financial Inclusion to Turn Ideas into Purposeful Actions
A staggering 1.7 billion adults globally remain excluded from the formal financial system due to factors ranging from infrastructure to education to public policy, according to the World Bank Group. And Brookings reports that the COVID-19...Read Essay
