IIX’s award-winning Women’s Livelihood Bond™ (WLB™) Series is a series of innovative gender-lens blended financial products that empower women and girls across multi-country and multi-sector portfolios. The bonds in the WLB™ Series qualify as Orange Bonds, empowering marginalized communities across emerging markets.
About the WLB™ Series
By addressing the three dimensions of risk, return, and impact, IIX created a new kind of financial instrument that delivers stable returns and sustainable impact to investors.
The US$8.5m WLB1 was the world’s first gender-lens impact investing security listed on a stock exchange in 2017.
To date, the WLB™ Series has mobilized US$288 million and is empowering 3,373,000 women and girls across emerging markets while providing consistent returns.
In 2025, IIX expanded the WLB™ Series to issue the first tranche of the seventh bond, the US$60 million WLB7.
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WLB7 Issuance
Building on the success of the US$100 million WLB6, IIX issued the WLB7 across two tranches, bringing the total issuance to US$92 million in May 2026. The WLB7 invests across 4 countries and will empower over 1 million women and girls, with proceeds with an Orange and Green lens, mobilizing capital for gender equality and climate action.
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