IFC Press Release

IFC Launches Facility to Support Microfinance Industry and Protect Access to Finance for the Poor

World Bank Group and Mali’s Government Launch Program to Support Smaller Businesses

IFC Helps Launch First Private Student Loan Program in Kenya

IFC Enhances First Russian Residential Mortgage Backed Securitization

IFC Supports Housing Finance in Brazil with 50 million Brazilian Reais Facility for Rio Bravo Securitizadora S.A.

IFC Supports Interbolsa’s Bond Issue and Becomes a Shareholder of the Leading Brokerage Colombian Company

IFC Supports Madagascar’s SME Sector with First-of-Its-Kind Investment

The Chuvash Republic Issues a RUR 1 Billion Bond Enhanced by IFC’s Partial Credit Guarantee

IFC Establishes Risk-Sharing Facility with Industrial Bank to Boost Energy Efficiency Project Lending in China

IFC Partners with Key Microfinance Institution in Morocco, to Benefit More Than 45,000 Microenterpreneurs

IFC Invests in Mexico’s GMAC Financiera’s MBS, Helping Build Capital Markets and Expanding Housing Finance

IFC Provides Partial Credit Guarantee to Buffalo City Municipality in South Africa

IFC and World Bank Municipal Fund Supports Improvement of Public Transportation System in Guatemala City

IFC Backs Entrepreneurial Development in Southeast Europe

IFC Supports Small Loans to Women

IFC Supports First Local Bond Issue by Private University in Peru

IFC Provides Guarantee for Local Currency Financing of Pakistan’s Packages Limited

IFC Invests $30 Million in Global Debt Fund

IFC Provides Partial Credit Guarantee to Peruvian Corporate Drokasa

IFC Supports First Non-Performing Assets Securitization in Latin America

IFC Supports Financiera Compartamos Bond Issue in Mexico through Partial Credit Guarantee First Investment Grade Bond Issue to Finance Microfinance Activities in Mexico

IFC Provides $57.5 Million to Baltic-American Enterprise Fund (Balaef) to Foster Economic Growth in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

IFC Approves $10 Million Investment in Argentine Export Securitization Program

IFC Provides Partial Credit Guarantee to Universidad Diego Portales In Chile First Future Cash Flow Securitization In Chile And The First By A Latin American University

IFC Guarantees First Corporate Bond Issue in Saudi Arabia

IFC Enters Municipal Finance Market in Mexico with Partial Credit Guarantee

IFC Supports First MBS Issue By Titularizadora Colombiana

IFC Launches First Partial Credit Guarantee Facility in Thailand

IFC Offers First Structured Partial Credit Guarantee for a Cross-Border Bond Issue

India—IFC Invests in Internet-Based Education Project for Poor Children

IFC Helps to Launch Pioneering Collaberalized Bond Obligation Transaction in Asia

IFC Offers a Structured Partial Credit Guarantee of a Rupee Bond Issued by Bharti Mobile Limited

IFC Invests in First Issue of Mortgage Backed Securities in Africa

IFC Invests in MBS Issued by Komoco, Korea—First Entry in Emerging Market Mortgage Backed Securities

Korea: First Securitization in Asia

IFC Closes Innovative Lease Securitization