Banking and Debt Management Group
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433

Telephone: 202-458-1122
Fax: 202-522-2102
Email: bdm@worldbank.org

Marketing and Client Outreach Team

• Offering general IBRD financial product information/training programs, through the preferred client media. Training can be classroom-based, distance learning or multi-media.
  
  
• Supporting the customized application of the flexibility of IBRD financial terms (currency, interest rate basis, repayment terms) to meet clients’ project or sovereign risk management needs. This support can be provided during IBRD project/loan preparation or in connection with the clients’ overall IBRD financing program.
  
  
• Enabling the access of IBRD borrowers to the Bank’s hedging products. As part of the process of negotiating a Master Derivatives Agreement (MDA) between a client and the IBRD, BCFBD offers workshops and other activities aimed at building client-country capacity to use derivative products in general and IBRD hedging products in particular.
  
  
• Providing training workshops on the use of analytical tools such as the Financial Product Workbooks, the Principal Amortization Generator, the Swap Calculator and the Cap/Floor Calculator. These tools were designed by IBRD to support informed borrower decision making with respect to IBRD loan and hedging products.
  

Regional Delivery Teams

To build and promote delivery capacity of the new IBRD financial products within the Bank and among Bank Clients, each Bank region has appointed a group of staff responsible for acquiring expertise in the new loan products, product delivery and operational procedures, and who are responsible for coordinating new financial product implementation in the Region, providing support to borrowers and Regional colleagues, and engaging necessary central resource team support. Regions include the following:

• Africa
• Middle East and North Africa
• Europe and Central Asia
• South Asia
• East Asia & Pacific
• Latin America and Caribbean

Central Resource Team

Regional staff is supported by a Central Resource Team led by the Banking and Debt Management Group (BCFBD), in close collaboration with the Legal and Loan Departments. The Central Resource Team is responsible for preparing product information materials, developing and delivering staff training, and providing operational support. In addition, BCFBD provides expert support in financial risk management and the use of the new products. Central Support would also be provided to negotiate master derivatives agreements with individual borrowers, so that these can use hedging products on existing IBRD loan products.

• Banking and Debt Management Group
• Loan Department (LOA)
• Legal Department (LEG)
• World Bank Institute (WBI)

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