What Intal does

Intal (legally the Inter-American Development Bank, also operating as IDB, BID, and Grupo BID) is a multilateral development bank established in 1959 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., owned by 48 member countries (26 borrowing members across Latin America and the Caribbean who collectively hold just over 50% of voting power, and 22 non-borrowing members including the United States, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Korea, and 16 European countries). The institution functions as the leading source of development financing and applied knowledge for the Latin America and Caribbean region, operating through three coordinated entities: the IDB (public-sector sovereign financing), IDB Invest (private-sector financing and advisory), and IDB Lab (early-stage innovation and entrepreneurship support), unified since 2024 under the IDBImpact+ framework. In 2025, the Group delivered approximately $35 billion in total financial support, including nearly $20 billion in sovereign-guaranteed public-sector lending spread across 100 approved projects and about $13 billion in IDB Invest activity.

The Group's commercial architecture is concessionary and relationship-driven rather than transactional: lending terms, interest rates, and fees are negotiated bilaterally with borrowing member governments and are not publicly disclosed. Distribution is executed through country offices in all 26 borrowing member countries plus representative offices in Tokyo and Madrid, enabling direct program design, implementation, and oversight at subnational granularity. Co-financing partnerships with private companies, corporate foundations, academic institutions, and public-sector entities have mobilized over $67 billion since 2008, functioning as a structural capital lever. Marketing and stakeholder engagement are delivered through a research and Open Knowledge repository, the IDB Blog, news and press operations, events, and monthly newsletters.

Intal's stated development mandate is the reduction of poverty and inequality, climate change response, and promotion of sustainable and inclusive growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Headcount is reported in the 1,001-5,000 band, consistent with the operational scope of a multilateral lender of this scale. The entity is not publicly traded, venture-backed, or PE-owned; governance rests with a Board of Governors (highest authority), a Board of Executive Directors, and a President. Pricing is not applicable in the conventional SaaS or product sense, as the institution is a development financier whose 'revenue' is functionally lending and guarantee volume rather than commercial top-line.

Name

Intal

Legal name

Inter-American Development Bank

Website

https://iadb.org

Company type

Public

Founded year

1959

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Intal is the Inter-American Development Bank Group, a multilateral development bank owned by 48 member countries that provides financing, technical assistance, and applied knowledge to governments, private firms, and entrepreneurs across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Development Finance

NAICS

Public Administration (92), Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (522), Activities Related to Credit Intermediation (5223)

SIC

Federal & Federally-Sponsored Credit Agencies (6111), International Affairs (9721), Foreign Governments (8888)

akta.pro primary industry

Technical Assistance, Policy Lending & Capacity Building Programs (BPADACAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

National Development Banks & State Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) (BPADACAC), Private Sector & Blended Finance Arms (IFC-type) (BPADACAJ), Infrastructure & Project Finance Facilities (BPADACAG)

Keywords

• Development financing
• Economic integration
• Technical assistance
• Multilateral lending
• Digital integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices29 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Development Financing and Lending: The IDB Group provides financial and technical support to national and subnational governments and other entities in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB Group financial support reached about $35 billion in 2025, with financing for the public sector reaching nearly $20 billion through 100 sovereign-guaranteed projects approved.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Intal provides support for economic and digital integration initiatives by assisting with management, technical, and financial issues. It delivers development financing, technical cooperation, and knowledge services to public sector governments, private sector companies, and entrepreneurs across Latin America and the Caribbean through sovereign-guaranteed lending, private sector investment, and innovation grants coordinated under the IDB Group umbrella (IDB, IDB Invest, IDB Lab).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Sector Financing (Sovereign Lending)

Quantifiable outcome

• 135,000 people now benefit from greater access to potable water in Guatemala
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Private CompaniescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2008Private sector partnerships extend the reach of IDB initiatives and increase funding to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 2008, over $67 billion has been mobilized through partnerships.
• Corporate FoundationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with corporate foundations support targeted development priorities through grants and innovative financing solutions.
• Academic InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with academic institutions provide knowledge, technical expertise, and technology-transfer opportunities for development impact.
• Public Sector InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublic sector partnerships across Latin America and the Caribbean and around the world advance development objectives.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• FMO (Dutch entrepreneurial development bank): FMO is a European DFI focused on private-sector investment in emerging markets, comparable in mandate to IDB Invest and a frequent co-financing partner on sustainability and financial-inclusion deals in LAC.
• New Development Bank (NDB/BRICS Bank): NDB is a newer multilateral development bank established by BRICS economies that extends infrastructure and sustainable-development financing to member and non-member emerging markets, increasingly overlapping with IDB's LAC project finance mandates.

Direct peers

• African Development Bank (AfDB): AfDB is a continental multilateral development bank combining sovereign lending, a private-sector window, and innovation financing for African member countries, structurally equivalent to the IDB Group and a benchmark for thematic programming.
• International Finance Corporation (IFC): IFC is the World Bank Group's private-sector arm and the structural analogue to IDB Invest, offering debt and equity financing to private companies in emerging markets with a similar blended-finance and advisory mandate.
• CAF — Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean: CAF is the leading regional multilateral lender specifically focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, directly competing with IDB for sovereign, subnational, and increasingly private-sector project mandates across the same borrowing countries.
• World Bank (IBRD/IDA): The World Bank is the largest multilateral development bank and IDB's closest global peer, performing the same combination of sovereign policy lending, capacity building, and technical assistance to member countries, with analogous governance and funding mechanics.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB): ADB is a regional multilateral development bank with the same structure (public-sector lending plus private-sector arm and innovation lab) serving Asian borrowing members — the closest functional mirror to IDB's Group structure outside LAC.
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): EBRD combines sovereign and private-sector project financing across emerging Europe and Central Asia, sharing IDB Invest's emphasis on private-sector mobilisation, transition reform advisory, and concessional blending.

Broad incumbents

• European Investment Bank (EIB): EIB is the EU's long-term lending institution providing large-scale project, infrastructure, and climate financing globally, including in LAC, with similar balance-sheet scale and triple-A funding profile to IDB.

Others

• Inter-American Investment Corporation / IDB Invest peers (DEG, Proparco, MIGA): MIGA is a multilateral political-risk insurance and credit-enhancement provider that competes with IDB Invest on private-sector de-risking for emerging-market projects, often co-financing alongside IDB Group and bilateral DFIs like DEG and Proparco.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inter-american-development-bank

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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