IFC

Helps governments and businesses attract private investment, structure transactions, and access expertise to support growth and development impact.

Mobilizes and manages capital for businesses in developing and frontier markets while giving institutional investors access to IFC investment opportunities.

Fills financing gaps and helps attract private investment to high-impact projects and challenging markets.

Helps clients access tailored capital market solutions, supports first-time bond issuance, and contributes to local capital market growth.

Provides long-term equity capital to support business growth and help attract investment from additional investors.

Helps promising companies in emerging markets access capital and expertise to support their growth.

Finances projects and companies with IFC loans, typically over seven to twelve years.

Connects emerging-market companies with loan financing and enables public and private partners to invest alongside IFC.

Supports trade and commodity finance in emerging markets through guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, loans, and structured products.

Helps clients access fixed-income financing and manage foreign exchange, interest rate, and commodity price exposures.

Advisory services

IFC advises governments and businesses on establishing conditions that attract private capital and support growth. Transaction advisory includes corporate finance advice to emerging-market businesses on buy-side and sell-side deals, equity capital raising, market expansion, acquisition targets, and IPO preparation. IFC also helps governments structure bankable, sustainable public-private partnerships that mobilize private capital and expertise, and provides expertise in complex project structuring, infrastructure strategy and implementation, healthcare standards, and investment project development.

• Attract Private Capital
  Advice helps governments and businesses establish conditions that can draw private capital into projects and markets.
• Structure Partnerships And Mobilize Resources
  Transaction advice supports bankable, sustainable partnerships that bring private capital and expertise to public and development needs.
• Attract Capital And Expand Into Markets
  Businesses receive transaction advice for buy-side and sell-side deals to support capital attraction and expansion into new markets.
• Raise Equity Capital
  Advice supports companies seeking to raise equity capital.
• Identify And Enter New Markets
  Support helps businesses identify new markets and expand into them.
• Structure Projects For Development Impact
  Project-structuring expertise supports private-sector investment and is directed toward maximizing development impact.
• Identify Acquisition Targets
  Companies receive support in identifying potential acquisition targets.
• Prepare Companies For IPOs
  Support helps companies prepare for an initial public offering.
• Strengthen Climate And Social Capabilities
  Diagnostics, analysis, and advice help companies build climate and social inclusion capabilities and strengthen environmental, social, and governance credibility.
• Improve Healthcare Quality And Standards
  Advisory programs support improvements in healthcare quality, ethical standards, productivity, and environmental and social benchmarks.
• Develop Projects For Investment
  Upstream and advisory work helps develop investment opportunities and enables institutional investors to deploy capital in emerging markets.

IFC Asset Management Company (AMC)

IFC Asset Management Company mobilizes and manages capital for businesses in developing countries and frontier markets. It provides institutional investors access to IFC’s global pipeline of equity and fund investments.

Category: Asset Management Services

• Mobilize And Manage Capital
  Supports businesses in developing countries and frontier markets by mobilizing and managing capital.
• Access IFC Investment Opportunities
  Enables institutional investors to access IFC’s global pipeline of equity and fund investments.

Blended finance

IFC uses concessional finance through blended finance facilities and the IDA Private Sector Window to address market barriers and fill financing gaps. These mechanisms help mobilize private investment for projects with high development impact, including pioneering projects and those in challenging environments.

• Mobilize Private Investment
  Help bring private investment to projects and markets where financing is difficult to attract.
• Fill Financing Gaps
  Address market barriers and financing gaps that can limit investment in high-development-impact projects.
• Access Concessional Finance
  Use concessional financing through blended finance facilities and the IDA Private Sector Window to support investment in difficult markets.
• Reduce Investment Risk
  Reduce the risks associated with investing in emerging markets, helping enable private investment.
• Attract Private Investors
  Make projects with development impact more appealing to private investors.

Capital markets solutions

IFC provides innovative, tailored capital market solutions to clients. The service promotes the growth of local capital markets and supports first-time bond issuers.

• Address Client Capital Market Needs
  Clients receive innovative capital market solutions tailored to their needs.
• Strengthen Local Capital Markets
  The service contributes to the growth of local capital markets.
• Support First-Time Bond Issuance
  The service supports clients that are issuing bonds for the first time.

Equity investments

IFC invests directly in the equity of companies and financial institutions, including through private equity funds. These investments provide long-term capital to help businesses grow and strengthen their sectors, while helping mobilize equity from additional investors.

• Access Equity Investment
  Companies and financial institutions can receive direct equity investment from IFC, including through private equity funds.
• Secure Long-Term Growth Capital
  Long-term equity capital supports business growth and helps strengthen the sectors in which businesses operate.
• Attract Additional Equity Investors
  IFC investment can help bring additional equity investors into companies and financial institutions.

Fund investments

IFC invests in venture capital and private equity funds focused on emerging markets. These investments help promising companies access the capital and expertise they need to grow.

• Invest In Emerging Market Funds
  IFC invests in venture capital and private equity funds focused on emerging markets, connecting these funds with capital for investment in promising companies.
• Access Growth Capital And Expertise
  Promising companies can receive the capital and expertise they need to support their growth.

Loans

IFC finances projects and companies through loans from its own account. Loan terms are typically seven to twelve years.

• Finance Projects And Companies
  Use IFC loans to finance projects or companies.
• Access Long-Term Financing
  Typical loan terms of seven to twelve years provide financing over an extended period.

Syndications

IFC’s loan syndications enable public and private partners to participate alongside IFC in loans to companies in emerging markets. The program mobilizes debt investment and is the oldest and largest debt-investment mobilization platform among multilateral development banks.

• Join IFC In Emerging-Market Loans
  Public and private partners can participate alongside IFC in providing loans to companies in emerging markets.
• Mobilize Debt Investment
  The program brings additional participants into debt investment through loan syndications.
• Access An Established Mobilization Platform
  The program offers a long-established, large-scale platform for mobilizing debt investment among multilateral development banks.

Trade and Supply Chain Finance

IFC offers a broad range of trade and supply chain finance products and services to support and strengthen trade and commodity finance in emerging markets. These include guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, loans, and other structured products. IFC's Global Trade Finance Program assets have also been used in a trade finance synthetic securitization designed to provide a standardized, scalable model for attracting private capital to emerging markets.

• Support Trade Finance
  Guarantees are one of the financing instruments IFC offers to support trade and supply chain finance in emerging markets.
• Share Financing Risks
  Risk-sharing facilities support trade and supply chain finance in emerging markets.
• Finance Trade Activities
  Loans are part of IFC's trade and supply chain finance offering, which supports trade and commodity finance in emerging markets.
• Structure Trade Financing
  Structured products complement IFC's guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, and loans in supporting trade and supply chain finance.
• Mobilize Private Capital
  The synthetic securitization uses trade assets from IFC's Global Trade Finance Program to provide a standardized, scalable model for drawing private capital into emerging markets.

Treasury Client Solutions

IFC provides clients with fixed-income solutions, including structured finance, local currency financing, risk management products, and access to debt capital markets. Its derivatives, structured finance, and local currency products and solutions help clients hedge foreign exchange, interest rate, and commodity price exposures.

• Hedge Financial Market Exposures
  Clients can hedge foreign exchange, interest rate, and commodity price exposures using IFC’s risk management products and solutions.
• Access Debt Capital Markets
  Clients can access debt capital markets through IFC’s treasury solutions.
• Access Local Currency Financing
  Clients can use IFC’s local currency financing products and solutions to meet their financing needs.
• Use Structured Finance Solutions
  Clients can access structured finance solutions through IFC’s treasury services.
• Hedge Exposures With Derivatives
  Clients can use derivatives products to hedge exposure to foreign exchange, interest rates, and commodity prices.