Expression of Interest For Facilitate Accession To Sepa Among The Private Sector

Expression of Interest for Facilitate Accession to SEPA among the Private Sector The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries to reduce poverty and improve peoples lives. Through its advisory services and donor-funded programs, IFC fosters financial and social inclusion by creating enabling environments where financial stability, access to finance, and risk management support private sector investment, capital market development, and equitable growth. The DFS Project in Europe aims to promote financial inclusion and deepen financial markets in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe by supporting digital banking, fintech, and embedded finance (EmFi). The project addresses systemic gaps through legal reforms, infrastructure development, and ecosystem strengthening. Objective of the Assignment IFC seeks to engage a qualified vendor to support a key strategic workstreams under the DFS project, with a strong emphasis on enabling private sector financial institutions, especially smaller banks and similar financial service providers, to become indirect participants in the SEPA scheme. The target countries for this initiative include Moldova, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. Note: The objective of this assignment is not to implement SEPA itself, but to support financial institutions and non-bank financial institutions in joining and actively participating in the SEPA ecosystem. Furthermore the assignment is consultative in nature and does not require an infrastructure/IT implementation role Tender Link : https://wbgeprocure-rfxnow.worldbank.org/rfxnow/public/advertisement/6154/view.html