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Treasury Services for Finance Ministries

The World Bank Treasury offers a wide variety of services for Ministries of Finance:

Public Debt Management

The Public Debt Management Team (part of BCFBD) is responsible for advising IBRD and IDA member governments in designing and implementing debt management strategies. Our mission is to assist governments in building capacity in managing the risks of the sovereign debt portfolio.
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Banking Products and Services

The Banking and Debt Management Group in the World Bank Treasury assures high-quality delivery to Bank clients of the IBRD's financial product menu - which includes lending and hedging products - by way of providing a wide range of client services. -->More

Asset Liability Management

The Asset Liability Management (ALM) team develops new products and innovative market solutions tailored to meet clients’ individual hedging needs. As part of this, they collaborate with other units to provide technical training to borrowers on pricing, market execution and credit aspects of hedging products and participates in negotiations on master derivatives agreements(MDAs) with borrowers. The ALM team works closely with clients to develop hedging strategies and market tools to achieve their specific debt management objectives. -->More

Capital Markets

Treasury offers technical assistance to member countries in areas connected to the issuance of debt securities, which draw on the World Bank's experience in the derivatives and debt capital markets and the expertise of the Capital Markets & Derivatives and Structured Financing teams.

Treasury focuses on clients' specific needs and supports individual clients with the following:

  • capital markets funding strategies
  • syndication and execution of bond issues
  • performance benchmarks and reporting
  • investor relations and new product development
  • definition and execution of hedging strategies
  • management of market, execution and operational risk
  • market practice and execution of OTC and exchange-traded instruments
  • legal and regulatory issues
  • modelling and controls
  • information systems

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