Institutional Capital Does Not Buy Projects: Why Private Assets Need to Become Portable Before They Become Investable
The World Bank Group says it mobilised a record $112 billion of private capital in FY2026 and wants to exceed $200 billion within two to three years. The strategic shift is not simply to originate more projects. It is to standardise and package loans into structures that pension funds, insurers and asset managers can hold. IFC’s Emerging Markets Securitization Program shows the model in practice: two CLO transactions have issued more than $1 billion of securities backed by 119 IFC-originated...