Scott Nathan, CEO of the U. S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), at the session “Investment Opportunities and De-risking Mechanisms to Mobilise Private Finance” at the URC2023


The key messages voiced by Scott Nathan, CEO of the U. S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), at the session “Investment Opportunities and De-risking Mechanisms to Mobilise Private Finance” at the Ukraine Recovery Conference URC2023:

– We provide loan guarantees and other financial mechanisms to support SMEs in Ukraine. To date, DFC has issued over USD 1 billion in financing in Ukraine.
– To support Ukraine’s cross-border trade, British International Investment (BII), DFC, and MIGA agreed to risk-share IFC’s trade finance exposure, GTFP program. The USD 50 mln transaction was first of its type in the history of the DFC.
– DFC is doing additional project with Bank “Lviv”, USD 20 mln in loan guarantees to support SMEs.
– DFC is open to consider investment projects in order to cover them against war/political risks in Ukraine.

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