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BII and IFC guarantee $10 million for Mauritanian trade

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BII and IFC guarantee $10 million for Mauritanian tradeCastelobranco · CC BY-SA 3.0

Banque Internationale d’Investissement and the International Finance Corporation have signed a $10 million guarantee to facilitate import and export operations by Mauritanian companies. The agreement, concluded under the Global Trade Finance Program, is intended to secure their transactions with international banks, according to the 11 November 2026 press release.

Banque Internationale d’Investissement (BII), a Mauritanian bank, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, signed a $10 million guarantee agreement on 11 November 2026 to facilitate international operations by Mauritanian companies, according to a BII statement.

The guarantee was concluded under the IFC’s Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) and is intended to enable BII to better support its corporate clients' imports and exports. The mechanism aims to secure their transactions with international banks and facilitate trade with foreign partners, according to BII.

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