Inter American Development Bank

Name

Inter American Development Bank

Legal name

Inter-American Development Bank

Website

https://iadb.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1959

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Multilateral Development Banking

NAICS

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (522)

SIC

Federal & Federally-Sponsored Credit Agencies (6111), International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) (FSABAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Private Sector & Blended Finance Arms (IFC-type) (BPADACAJ), Technical Assistance, Policy Lending & Capacity Building Programs (BPADACAN)

Keywords

• Development financing
• Sovereign lending
• Private sector investment
• Multilateral banking
• Technical cooperation

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Sovereign-guaranteed lending: Long-term, low-cost loans to national, subnational, and municipal governments in 26 borrowing member countries; nearly $20 billion approved across 100 sovereign-guaranteed projects in 2025; funded through bond issuances under the Global Debt Program (e.g., $25M callable notes at 4.48%, $50M fixed-rate notes at 3.89%, INR 9.5B notes at 6.85%, $100M floating rate notes at SOFR+0.39%).
2. Non-sovereign-guaranteed private-sector financing (IDB Invest): Direct financing to private companies and projects in Latin America and the Caribbean through IDB Invest; total IDB Invest activity of approximately $13 billion in 2025; includes loans, equity, guarantees, and blended finance for critical minerals, energy, digital infrastructure, and more.
3. Innovation/entrepreneur support (IDB Lab): Venture and grant funding for start-ups and entrepreneurship, including a $25 million dedicated Central America startups fund; co-financing with JICA in SP Ventures AgVentures III; instruments include debt, equity, and technical assistance.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

The Inter-American Development Bank Group is a multilateral development bank providing financial and technical support to public and private sectors across 26 borrowing member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It operates through three entities: the IDB (sovereign-guaranteed lending to governments, ~$20 billion approved across 100 projects in 2025), IDB Invest (non-sovereign-guaranteed private-sector financing, ~$13 billion total activity in 2025), and IDB Lab (innovation and entrepreneurship funding, including the $25 million Central America Startup Fund). The Group combines lending, equity, guarantees, technical cooperation, and digital public infrastructure (IdLAC cross-border identity broker, ONE Caribbean digital health framework, AI Sprinters policy tools) into a unified IDBImpact+ delivery platform.

Product overview

The IDB Group is a multilateral development bank operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture with three core entities (IDB for public-sector financing, IDB Invest for private-sector financing, IDB Lab for innovation) unified under the IDBImpact+ transformation program launched in 2024. The IDB Group reached about $35 billion in total financial support in 2025 (~$20B sovereign-guaranteed + ~$13B IDB Invest). Around the three entities, the Group organizes its work through thematic initiatives (BID for the Americas, Alliance for Security, Justice, and Development, IDB Cares, Ready and Resilient Americas, Amazonia Forever) and regional programs (One Caribbean, América en el Centro, South Connection), plus sectoral initiatives such as IDB LAC Minerals, ReInvest+, and the Power Transmission Acceleration Platform (PTAP). Its digital public infrastructure stack includes the LAC Digital Citizen / IdLAC cross-border digital identity broker built with the World Bank, Co-Develop and RedGeALC, the ONE Caribbean digital health framework, the Digital Learning Cost Calculator built with MegaEdu, the AI Here! (¡IA Presente!) call in partnership with Ceibal and Socialab, the AI Academy on ImplementaLAC with Apolitical, the Data Dashboard of the Labor Observatories Network, the Public Policy for the Digital Transformation of Transport online course, and the Adaptive AI Readiness Scorecard for LAC.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• IDBImpact+: Unifying approach launched in 2024 to focus the work of the IDB, IDB Invest, and IDB Lab under one goal to ramp up impact and scale of results.
• IDBStrategy+
• IDBInvest+
• IDBLab+
• BID for the Americas
• One Caribbean
• América en el Centro
• South Connection
• Amazonia Forever
• IDB Cares
• Alliance for Security, Justice, and Development
• Ready and Resilient Americas

Products and services

• Sovereign-Guaranteed Lending (IDB Public Sector Arm) Long-term, low-cost loans to national, subnational, and municipal governments across 26 LAC borrowing member countries; ~$20 billion approved across 100 sovereign-guaranteed projects in 2025; funded through Global Debt Program bond issuances.
• Non-Sovereign-Guaranteed Private Sector Financing (IDB Invest) Direct financing to private companies and projects in LAC through IDB Invest; approximately $13 billion in total activity in 2025; includes loans, equity, guarantees, and blended finance for critical minerals, energy, digital infrastructure, and other sectors.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship Funding (IDB Lab) Venture and grant funding for startups and entrepreneurship across LAC; instruments include debt, equity, and technical assistance; includes a $25 million dedicated Central America Startup Fund and co-financing with JICA in SP Ventures AgVentures III.
• LAC Digital Citizen / IdLAC Cross-Border Digital Identity Broker Regional, open-source digital identity broker enabling cross-border recognition of electronic IDs across 12 LAC countries; Brazil-Uruguay agreement allows 77 million Brazilians to access ~300 Uruguayan government services via facial recognition or QR codes.
• Digital Learning Cost Calculator Free tool co-developed with MegaEdu that estimates and plans digital education investments across five dimensions (connectivity, devices, teacher training, platforms, governance) for LAC governments.
• Adaptive AI Readiness Scorecard for LAC Approved project (RG-T5053) at $600,000 total cost that helps LAC governments assess readiness to adopt AI through a structured scorecard methodology.
• Public Payroll Analytics Methodology Guide Technical note and methodological guide with sample R code and indicators across eight domains; applied in Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, and Central American nations to identify efficiency gaps, gender pay disparities, and fiscal impacts of reforms.
• Brazil Labor Data Dashboard (Labor Observatories Network) Platform consolidating PNAD Contínua, CAGED, and RAIS labor data into 230+ visualization types filterable by gender, age, race, education, and sector; over 1,000 registered users from state and municipal governments.
• AI Academy on ImplementaLAC Free AI training program for government officials in Latin America, delivered through the ImplementaLAC platform in partnership with Apolitical as part of the Google-IDB AI program.
• ReInvest+ Capital Mobilization Platform Capital mobilization platform aimed at converting up to $500 billion of Latin American local loans into investable global assets by adding political and foreign-exchange risk insurance; addresses the $1.3 trillion annual climate-financing gap.

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability11 records

Feature15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• World Bank Group: The largest multilateral development institution, providing sovereign lending, guarantees, and knowledge products across all developing regions. Direct peer to the IDB's public-sector arm, with frequent co-financing on LAC projects (e.g., IdLAC, Digital VAT toolkit) and overlapping mandates on poverty, climate, and infrastructure.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB): Regional multilateral development bank serving Asia-Pacific with sovereign lending, private-sector financing (ADB Private Sector Operations), and an innovation lab. Peer to IDB across the public, private, and innovation pillars, although focused on a different geography.
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): Multilateral development bank investing in private-sector development and transition across Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Comparable governance model (member-country shareholders), private-sector focus via equity and debt, and innovation-financing operations analogous to IDB Invest and IDB Lab.
• African Development Bank (AfDB): Continental multilateral development bank providing sovereign and non-sovereign financing across Africa. Comparable institutional architecture (public arm, private-sector window, innovation lab equivalents) and similar mandate of poverty reduction, climate action, and regional integration, albeit in a different region.

Direct peers

• International Finance Corporation (IFC): The World Bank Group's private-sector arm, providing loans, equity, and advisory to companies in developing markets. Closest comparable to IDB Invest in mandate, instruments, and target client base, including blended finance and emerging-market private infrastructure deals.
• CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional multilateral development bank serving LAC sovereigns and private clients with lending, guarantees, and advisory. Direct competitor to IDB in the LAC region with overlapping shareholder countries and increasingly overlapping sectoral mandates (infrastructure, climate, social).

Regional players

• BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank): Brazilian national development bank with deep LAC reach, providing long-term financing, equity, and guarantees for infrastructure and industry. Frequently co-finances IDB projects in Brazil and competes for large LAC infrastructure mandates, especially in energy and critical minerals.
• Caribbean Development Bank: Regional multilateral development bank serving Caribbean borrowing member countries with sovereign lending and technical assistance. Direct peer in IDB's One Caribbean program geography and frequently co-finances projects in the Eastern Caribbean.
• FONPLATA: Sub-regional multilateral development bank serving the Río de la Plata basin (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay). Operates smaller-scale sovereign and infrastructure lending in geographies where IDB's South Connection program is also active, occasionally co-financing with IDB.

Emerging players

• New Development Bank (NDB / BRICS Bank): Multilateral development bank established by BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) providing infrastructure and sustainable-development financing, including in LAC. An emerging competitor that has signaled interest in expanding LAC lending, with potential to dilute IDB's regional mandate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/the_IDB

Compliance4 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments25 records

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