International Finance Corporation (IFC) offers a variety of loan products to support house financing needs in emerging markets. Such loan products can be broadly categorized as unsecured loan, secured...
Warehouse Line of Credit (WHL) is a revolving facility granted to a Borrower to acquire and warehouse mortgage portfolio for future securitization. Such portfolio is pledged to International Finance Corporation...
Collateralized Mortgage Line of Credit (CML) is a commitment by International Finance Corporation (IFC) to lend funds against a pledge of mortgage assets held as collateral for IFC’s obligation. Typically...
Ratings of Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Credit with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option Project for Honduras were as follows: overall outcome was satisfactory, relevance of prior actions...
Zambia remains in debt distress. The stock of external arrears (principal and interest) reached 26 percent of GDP by end-year 2023. Despite significant fiscal adjustment, in the absence of the settlement...
Based on nearly 40 years of data collected by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), this report offers a comprehensive analysis of default rates for the IFC corporate loan portfolio. It provides...
Zambia remains in debt distress. The stock of external arrears reached 11 and half percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by end-year 2022 and continued accumulating in 2023 in the absence of a debt restructuring...
The development objective of the Second Recovery and Resilience Programmatic Development Policy Credit for Grenada is to support Grenada’s recovery, through two pillars, (i) promoting a greener and more...
This debt sustainability analysis (DSA) provides an update of the June 2022 DSA. Total public debt is US 3.3 billion dollars, or 40.8 percent of GDP at end-2022, nearly all of which is external. The revised...
This debt sustainability analysis (DSA) provides an update of the November 2020 DSA. Total public debt is US$ 3.5 billion, or 47.5 percent of GDP at end-2021—nearly all of which is external. The revised...
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policy—in the form of legal reserve requirements—in three Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify...
The report presents: background International Committee on Credit Reporting (ICCR); cybersecurity; cross border data sharing; and regulatory framework for oversight of CRSPs.
The outbreak of the Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed the course of global economy and financial system, disrupting financial and commodity markets, global supply chains, trade, travel...
The outbreak of the Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed the course of global economy and financial system, disrupting financial and commodity markets, global supply chains, trade, travel...
The purposes of this study are to review currently established international cross-border sharing initiatives and mechanisms and to explore obstacles for cross-border sharing of credit information. The...
The report presents: background International Committee on Credit Reporting (ICCR); cybersecurity; cross border data sharing; and regulatory framework for oversight of CRSPs.
This paper studies the distribution of credit during crisis times and its impact on firm indebtedness and macroeconomic risk. Whereas policies can help firms in need of financing, they can lead to adverse...
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of topics focusing on assessment, analysis, and management of financial risks in banking. It emphasizes risk management principles and stresses that key...
The development objective of the Support to Small and Medium Enterprises for Economic Recovery Project for Tunisia is to improve access to long-term finance to viable small and medium enterprises (SMEs)...