What We Do

Our Products and Services

IFC provides investment, advice, and asset management — offerings that are mutually reinforcing and can be tailored to a client’s specific needs.

Our financial products enable companies to manage risk and broaden their access to foreign and domestic capital markets. Investment services product lines include loans, equity investments, trade and commodity finance, derivatives and structured finance and blended finance.

We also play a catalytic role in mobilizing additional funding through parallel loans, loan participations, partial credit guarantees, securitizations, loan sales, risk sharing facilities and fund investments. By attracting new investors, we introduce our clients to new sources of capital and better ways of doing business.

In fiscal year 2023, IFC committed a record $43.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to improve people’s lives as economies grapple with the impacts of global compounding crises.

Advisory Services

We offer governments and business advisory services to help establish the necessary conditions to attract the most private capital.

Equity

We directly invest in companies and financial institutions, including through private-equity funds.

Trade and Commodity Finance

Trade and Commodity Finance programs offer guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, loans and other structured products to support trade in emerging markets. 

Asset Management

We mobilize and manage capital for businesses in developing countries and frontier markets.

Loans

We finance projects and companies through loans from our own account, typically for 7 to 12 years.

Treasury Client Solutions

We offer derivative and structured finance, along with local currency products and solutions to enable clients to hedge foreign-exchange, interest-rate, and commodity-price exposure.

Blended Finance

The use of blended finance allows us to fill financing gaps by addressing market barriers and attracting private sector investments to areas of high development impact.

Syndications

Through syndications, we enable our public and private partners to participate alongside us as we provide loans to companies in emerging markets.