The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) was the United States Government's Development finance institution until it merged with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to form the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). OPIC mobilized private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so,advanced the foreign policy of the United States and national security objectives.
Chemical Bank,headquartered in New York City,was the principal operating subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation,a bank holding company. In 1996,it acquired Chase Bank,adopted the Chase name,and became the largest bank in the United States. Prior to the 1996 merger,Chemical was the third-largest bank in the U.S.,with $182.9 billion in assets and more than 39,000 employees. In addition to operations in the U.S.,it had a major presence in Japan,Germany,and the United Kingdom. It was active in both corporate banking as well as retail banking as well as investment banking and underwriting corporate bonds and equity.
JPMorgan Chase &Co. is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2023. As the largest of Big Four banks,the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the maintenance of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet". The firm is temporarily headquartered at 383 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and is set to move back across the street into the under-construction JPMorgan Chase Building at 270 Park Avenue in 2025.
Microfinance consists of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit,the provision of small loans to poor clients;savings and checking accounts;microinsurance;and payment systems,among other services. Microfinance services are designed to reach excluded customers,usually poorer population segments,possibly socially marginalized,or geographically more isolated,and to help them become self-sufficient. ID Ghana is an example of a microfinance institution.
David M. Cote is an American businessman. Cote previously worked for General Electric and TRW Inc. before he was appointed chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Honeywell in 2002,following their acquisition by AlliedSignal. Cote also sat on the JP Morgan Chase risk committee during the period in which the firm lost $6 billion trading credit derivatives. Cote stepped down as CEO at Honeywell at the end of March 2017 and was succeeded by Darius Adamczyk. Cote is currently the executive chairman of Vertiv.
James Dimon is an American banker and businessman. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of JPMorgan Chase since 2006.
J.P. Morgan &Co. is an American financial institution specialized in investment banking,asset management and private banking founded by financier J. P. Morgan in 1871. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions,the company is now a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase,one of the largest banking institutions in the world. The company has been historically referred to as the "House of Morgan" or simply Morgan.
George Muñoz is an American businessman,CPA and attorney. He is the president and co-founder of Muñoz Investment Banking Group which is primarily focused on financing and investments in the Emerging Markets Countries as well as in the U.S. Hispanic community. He is also a partner at Tobin &Muñoz,a Chicago-based law firm focused on commercial litigation,white collar investigations and litigation,and international transactions,where he works out of the firm's Chicago and Washington,D.C. offices.
The World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) is an international trade association and development agency for credit unions headquartered in Madison,Wisconsin. WOCCU aims to improve lives through credit unions and other financial cooperatives through advocacy,development and education. WOCCU's member associations account for over 86,450 credit unions in 118 countries with over 375 million members worldwide.
Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking,the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is the association or trade group for the global financial services industry. It was created by 38 banks of leading industrialized countries in 1983 in response to the international debt crisis of the early 1980s,and has since expanded to represent more than 400 firms from more than 60 countries. IIF members include commercial and investment banks,asset managers,insurance companies,professional services firms,exchanges,sovereign wealth funds,hedge funds,central banks and development banks.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is an independent federal agency in the United States created as the successor regulatory agency of the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB),the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO),and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development government-sponsored enterprise mission team,absorbing the powers and regulatory authority of both entities,with expanded legal and regulatory authority,including the ability to place government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) into receivership or conservatorship.
Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009,following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014,he has served as president and chairman of Warburg Pincus,a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) are awards in Islamic banking and finance. GIFA was founded by the consulting firm Edbiz as part of its advocacy for Islamic banking and finance.
Mizuho Americas was established on July 1,2016 as a US bank holding company,as the American corporate and investment banking arm of the Tokyo-based Mizuho Financial Group.
Hassan Abdullah is an Egyptian financier. He is the current governor of the Central Bank of Egypt. He previously held the chief executive officer position of the Arab African International Bank (AAIB),a regional financial services institution that was Egypt's first Arab multinational bank. Abdullah joined the AAIB in 1982 and became the CEO of AAIB in 2002. He is also a board member at the American University in Cairo (AUC). In August 2022,Abdullah was appointed as the new acting governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) by presidential decree.
Mimi Alemayehou is a development finance executive who has served as Executive Vice President of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and as United States Executive Director of the African Development Bank.
Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta,is a Ghanaian investment banker who served as the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning in the cabinet of Nana Akufo-Addo from 2017 to 2024. He was a co-founder of Databank Group,a Ghanaian financial services company,and served as executive chairman until 2012 when he resigned. He was nominated by President Nana Akufo-Addo on 10 January 2017 and assumed office on 27 January 2017 as finance minister. On February 14,2024,he was relieved of his position as the finance minister of Ghana by Nana Akufo-Addo.
In South Africa the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors. Some companies are not directly controlled by the Department of Public Enterprises,but by various other departments. Further,not all state owned entities are registered as companies.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in development projects primarily in lower and middle-income countries. First authorized on 5 October 2018 by the BUILD Act,the independent agency was formed on 20 December 2019 by merging the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),as well as with several other smaller offices and funds.
