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Country: Nepal
Summary: Consulting Firm to Assess API Standards & Data Sharing, Cloud Computing, and Embedded Finance
Deadline: 14 Aug 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 123958698
Document Ref. No.: 0002017569
Financier: World Bank (WB)
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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A.PROJECT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVESThe International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, is a global leader, investor and advisor; committed to projects in its developing member countries that reduce extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. IFC finances private sector investments, mobilizes capital in the international financial markets, helps clients improve social and environmental sustainability, and provides technical assistance and advice to businesses and governments in the developing world. The Country Advisory and Economics (CAE) Unit works with governments to create an enabling environment for accelerating equitable growth and is focused on identifying firm and industry-level constraints to deliver reforms which can drive growth and accelerate job creation (including access to finance, innovation, special economic zones, industry solutions, entrepreneurship, etc.); boosting firm-level efficiency and productivity centers on adopting better and digital technologies. In addition, the CAE Unit also closely collaborates with IBRD/IDA (The World Bank) to provide effective support to client governments and attract more private sector investments. CAE Advisory will strengthen the World Bank Group-s evolving approach to development finance to maximize finance for development and leverage private sector investments for sustainable and inclusive growth. The IFC-s CAE unit is implementing a digital financial services (DFS) sector project at the request of the Central Bank of Nepal- Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB). The targeted interventions are expected to benefit the sector at large and will foster opportunities for private sector investment in the digital finance ecosystem. Thus, IFC is seeking a consulting firm (hereafter referred as “Consultant” collectively), to conduct a study on Application Programming Interface (APIs) Standardization and Data Sharing, Cloud Computing, Embedded Finance. These efforts could catalyze increased di...
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ToR_NRB-Study-for-DFS_607196-21.7.25.pdf