Financial Services Volunteer Corps

FSVC is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership whose mission is to help build the sound financial systems needed to support robust market economies in transitioning and developing countries. Sound financial infrastructure is essential to support private entrepreneurship, promote job creation, mobilize domestic savings, attract foreign investment, and create conditions that promote lasting economic opportunity. FSVC’s core work concentrates on strengthening commercial banking systems, developing central bank capabilities, and building capital markets and other non-bank financial institutions. Major additional areas of work include improving access to financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises, financial inclusion, and strengthening financial sector capacity to combat money laundering and corruption. Another critical area of current work involves increasing financial transparency and to promote sound governance. FSVC structures practical, results-oriented technical assistance and training missions staffed by senior financial sector practitioners who serve as unpaid volunteers. Over the past 35 years, more than experts from the international financial, legal, and regulatory communities have taken part in FSVC missions, reaching millions of people in over 70 developing and transitioning countries. FSVC’s work in recent years has been focused in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.