What Is OPIC

So how does it work? OPIC has three main areas of resource: financing, political risk insurance, and investment funds.
 
Debt Financing – Working in a wide array of industries including health care, education, infrastructure, and telecommunications, OPIC provides debt financing to eligible investments in developing countries and emerging markets. As mentioned above, OPIC’s relationship with the private sector helps provide financing in countries where conventional institutions are not able to provide lending.
 
Political Risk Insurance – Investing is risky. Investing in an emerging market is even riskier. That’s why OPIC provides political risk insurance for investors if something out of their hands was to occur, such as war, civil strife, or terrorist acts. OPIC allows you to use political risk insurance as a basis to secure private sector funding where otherwise credit would be hard to come by. OPIC provides political risk insurance to U.S. investors and contractors in more than 150 developing countries and emerging markets around the globe.
 
Support For Private Equity Funds – Organizations are hesitant to get involved in markets that have still not proven that they are worth the risk, but OPIC is not like most organizations. Aside from being one of the largest private equity fund sponsors in emerging markets, OPIC is also one of the first fund sponsors to take a chance and enter a market that is still trying to prove itself. Since 1987 OPIC has committed $4.1 billion to 62 private equity funds in emerging markets.
 
OPIC has a lot offer to U.S. companies looking to break into developing countries market. All OPIC projects adhere to the highest standards. To learn more and about OPIC, please click here.