International Finance Corporation LLC
International Finance Corporation LLC
One group, clear lines
IFC and IFB International Finance Bank LTD are sister companies within the group, and they do deliberately different things.
IFC advises, structures and arranges. It earns fees for judgement and design. It holds no banking licence and no balance sheet.
IFB is the licensed bank. It holds accounts, issues instruments, executes and settles, and carries the regulated activity and the balance sheet.
When your mandate is advice, you are working with IFC. When it needs the banking itself, IFC introduces you to IFB and the bank takes it from there. You are never sold a banking product by a firm that is not a bank. The separation protects you, and it is by design.
The wider group
Advice, banking and industry are held in separate companies, each licensed and run for its own purpose. The full group structure, entity by entity and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, is set out on the dedicated group page.
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