Documents et rapports

Collateral Registry, Secured Transactions Law and Practice (anglais)

This Guidance Note examines the potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) within the context of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions. While this model is the primary reference, the Guidance...

Distributed Ledger Technology and Secured Transactions Framework (anglais)

This Guidance Paper provides a primer on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and highlights the junctures at which this new technology meaningfully impacts secured transactions frameworks. The aim is to...

Regulatory Implications of Integrating Digital Assets and Distributed Ledgers in Credit Ecosystems (anglais)

This guidance note focuses on the regulatory implications that the deployment of distributed ledger technology (DLT) entails for secured transactions and collateral registry (STCR) frameworks. In particular...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Improved Investment Climate within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa (OHADA) - P126663 - Sequence No : 13 (anglais)

Secured Transactions, Collateral Registries and Movable Asset-Based Financing : Knowledge Guide (anglais)

The main objective of this Knowledge Guide is to provide guidance to the World Bank Group (WBG) staff, donor institutions, government officials and other practitioners on the objectives and implementation...

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Nouadhibou Eco-Seafood Cluster Project - P151058 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Improved Investment Climate within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa (OHADA) - P126663 - Sequence No : 12 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Improved Investment Climate within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa (OHADA) - P126663 - Sequence No : 11 (anglais)

Project Information Document-Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet - Improved Investment Climate within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) AF - P164728 (anglais)

Addressing the SME finance problem (anglais)

Although SMEs provide employment to a large share of the labor force in developed and developing countries, they receive limited external funding compared to large firms and face a financing gap. This...

Africa - Improved Investment Climate within the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) : P126663 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (anglais)

Resource financed infrastructure : a discussion on a new form of infrastructure financing (portugais)

This report, consisting of a study prepared by global project finance specialists Hunton and Williams LLP and comments from six internationally reputed economists and policy makers, provides an analytical...

Collateral registries for movable assets : does their introduction spur firms' access to bank finance ? (anglais)

Using firm-level surveys for up to 73 countries, this paper explores the impact of introducing collateral registries for movable assets on firms' access to bank finance. It compares firms' access to bank...

It started in Ghana : implementing Africa's first collateral registry (anglais)

The author all want to build something that matters. From the advisory Services perspective, no matter the business line, it's about helping meaningful players accomplish sustainable results. However...

IFC Development Goals (IDGs) overview : IDG3 - financial services (anglais)

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) Development Goals (IDGs) are corporate-level development goals inspired by the Millennium Development Goals as a way to better integrate IFC's results measurement...

Credit reporting : knowledge guide (anglais)

This second edition of the Credit Reporting Knowledge Guide aims to support the dissemination of knowledge on best practices in credit reporting development, based on IFC’s experience. The original Credit...

Making security interests public : registration mechanisms in 35 jurisdictions (anglais)

Movable assets tangible or intangible often account for most of firm's capital stock. Thus it is important for jurisdictions to develop adequate laws on secured transactions to allow borrowers and lenders...

Facilitating Access to finance for small and medium enterprises in East Asia (anglais)

Inadequate access to finance is one of the key constraints to growth of small- and medium- enterprises (SMEs). Creditors report the absence of reliable information on SME performance and lack of collateral...

Credit reporting : knowledge guide : Rapports de credit : meilleures pratiques internationales et etudes de cas (français)

This second edition of the Credit Reporting Knowledge Guide aims to support the dissemination of knowledge on best practices in credit reporting development, based on IFC’s experience. The original Credit...

Increasing access to credit through reforming secured transactions in the MENA Region (anglais)

This paper provides a comparative summary of secured transactions systems related to the use of movable property as collateral in the MENA region vis a vis international practices in countries with modern...