Global Emerging Markets Risk Database (GEMs) Consortium

Leveraging data from Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions to support investment and development.

GEMs, the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database Consortium (GEMs), was established in 2009 as a joint initiative between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and IFC and has since grown to 25 Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).

GEMs is one of the world’s largest credit risk databases for emerging markets. The database pools credit risk data and publishes default and recovery statistics on a regular basis in an effort to drive investments in emerging markets and developing economies.

“The GEMs Consortium, co-founded by the EIB and the World Bank Group, is an example of how we can have a far greater impact when we work together. The publication today and sharing of information with public and private sector partners is a direct response to the call by the G20 for International Financial Institutions to support reform of the financial system by sharing data and expertise more widely. I’m hopeful that this first important step will help us all to drive transformative investments in emerging markets and developing economies.”  

– Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank.

Laura Farrell Smith
Senior Communications Officer
+1 (202) 355-3754
LSmith4@ifc.org
Egidio Germanetti
Senior Communications Officer
Paris
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egermanetti@ifc.org