IFC to cover financial risk for businesses
KARACHI: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed a risk-sharing agreement with Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan, saying it will cover a 50% loss of funding in local currency equivalent to $200 million (over Rs 57 billion) to corporate clients, including industries based in exports and small businesses. IFC will underwrite risk on short-term trade and working capital-financed lending facilities for corporate clients based in Pakistan, Standard Chartered Bank said in a statement on Monday. “Standard Chartered and IFC aim to leverage their long-standing relationship with export-based industries to enable the generation of foreign exchange inflows, which remain critical to the


