Meaghan discusses where the IFC sits in the World Bank Group and how these institutions operate (0:41), how IFC only lends to the private sector and aims to make the ‘inroads’ into projects before commercial lenders (02:47), what drives IFC to make investments and how they balance ESG impact with financial returns (04:13), how they mobilize private capital and are seeing more impact investors and ‘patient’ capital (07:45), how IFC builds relationships with investors (09:53), what they really mean by ‘patient’ capital (14:10), how do institutional investors view IFC? (16.50), how IFC aligns themselves with certain investors and are “hard to date but good to be married to” (21:46) and finally how IFC is aligning their investment book with the Paris Agreement (24:50).
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