The objective of the Access to Finance program is to expand and accelerate private sector access to a broad range of financial services by building strong and diversified financial markets. Our projects target the following strategic priorities:
- Strengthening banks and microfinance institutions through improving governance and risk management.
- Broadening and deepening access to finance, particularly for small businesses and for housing.
- Helping to build asset registries, credit bureaus, rating agencies, and improved payment systems, so that each country’s financial systems infrastructure will be larger, broader, and more inclusive.
We will also help strengthen each market’s ability to raise equity and debt through their capital markets or through private equity. This will entail advisory programs in capital market development and legal infrastructure so that all market players – state-owned, private sector, domestic or foreign – will have equal opportunity on a level playing field.
