International Finance Corporation
International Finance Corporation
Private Wealth & Family Capital
We design the structures that hold capital across generations, and we answer to one interest only: yours.
IFC International Finance Corporation advises families, principals and their offices on how private capital is held, governed and moved. We are retained to turn an estate, a holding or a succession into a structure that survives the people who built it. We design and arrange. We do not take custody, and we hold no balance sheet.
We advise.
We structure.
We arrange.
The room between rigid and fragile.
Since 2008, the universal bank has been built for the regulator, not the family. It is slower, more rigid and more expensive than it was, and the things a serious family now wants - direct deals, structure cut to measure, a single view across everything it owns - are the things it is least able to provide.
The alternative most families drift into is informal. A trusted relative, a family lawyer, an arrangement that holds while the founder is alive and watching. Flexible, certainly. Also undocumented, ungoverned, and fragile at the one moment it is ever tested: the succession.
We occupy the room between the two. The discipline of an institution without its rigidity. The reach of a private arrangement without its fragility. Structure that bends where it should and holds where it must.
Six mandates, one discipline
Trusts and holdings, built in the right jurisdiction for the right reason.
Explore → 02The constitution and the board that keep a family aligned after the founder.
Explore → 03The office designed and overseen, without our hand on the assets.
Explore → 04Lawful, documented structure against real risk. Not secrecy.
Explore → 05Private markets and real assets, allocated to a mandate, not a product.
Explore → 06The read where geopolitics meets the family balance sheet.
Explore →Why independence is the whole point
Most wealth advice is sold by an institution that also wants to hold the money. Ours is not.
We take no custody and run no product book, so we have nothing to place and no position to protect. The structure we recommend is the one we would build for our own family. For capital meant to outlast you, that is not a refinement. It is the point.
Capitals advises on and arranges the structures and the allocation. Where a mandate needs custody, accounts or settlement, we introduce IFB International Finance Bank LTD, the group’s licensed institution. We design and arrange. The bank holds and settles. Your independence stays intact because we never take custody of what we advise on.
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