Publications and Reports
Global Inclusive Finance Forum 2025 Report
Around the world, queer people face acute, specific barriers to accessing jobs, training, and capital. The cost to the global economy is at least $1 trillion per year, a burden borne almost entirely by the community itself. Yet global funding to address it stands at just $9 million annually.
That gap is why Koppa Lab convened the first-ever Global Inclusive Finance Forum last October, bringing together investors, bankers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and movement leaders at the Deutsche Bank Center in New York City on October 9th-10th.
What we found
150+ participants from 95 organizations across five regions spent two days working through one of the most underfunded coordination problems in global finance. Here is what the room made clear:
- The movement’s funding has collapsed, but the leverage to fight back exists.
- Queer entrepreneurs are not higher risk. The frameworks used to assess them are broken.
- Data on LGBTQI+ communities can build inclusion or enable harm. The difference is in the design.
- Inclusive portfolios require intentional architecture, not good intentions.
- The queer experience is an economic asset. As one Forum speaker put it: “Proving queer talent isn’t a risk, it’s rocket fuel.”
For the full findings, download the report below.
Ring the Bell for LGBTIQ+ Equality 2025 Report
In May 2025, fourteen stock exchanges across four continents rang their opening bells in solidarity with LGBTIQ+ equality. From the London Stock Exchange to Brazil’s B3, from the Toronto Stock Exchange to the Sydney Stock Exchange, and across all seven EuroNext exchanges (Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo, and Paris), global markets used one of their most visible public outlets to send an unambiguous signal: inclusion is a social imperative. It is economic infrastructure.
The initiative was co-led by Koppa Lab, UN Human Rights, the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, and the UN Global Compact. This report documents what the historic initiative achieved, what the data tells us about the cost of exclusion and the power of inclusion, and what must come next.