Credit guarantee schemes

Small businesses can repay. Most cannot offer the collateral banks ask for.

KDF designs the credit guarantee schemes that close that gap, and the software that runs them. Infiniti Business & International Development Consulting advises governments, development finance institutions and partner banks. Prudence Credit Guarantee software manages a scheme from guarantee to claim to recovery.

30+
years in development finance
17
countries worked in
17
schemes since 2014

Hands-on experience in development finance and credit guarantee consulting.

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A bag shop in Nepal, from the Diaries post MSMEs: Always All In!

Two ways we work with you

One company, from scheme design to daily operations.

Advisory

The expertise to design it.

Design and strengthen your scheme.

Advisory services for institutions designing or strengthening credit guarantee schemes, built around managing risk and the scheme's long-term sustainability, and drawn from more than 30 years of development-finance experience across 17 countries.

  • Scheme and product design
  • Business planning
  • Capacity building
  • Implementation support
About Infiniti Consulting

Software

The platform to run it.

Run it on a purpose-built platform.

The credit guarantee management platform, built by people who have run guarantee scheme operations. Offered as a shared service or as a dedicated installation for one client.

  1. Application
  2. Approval
  3. Disbursement
  4. Monthly reporting
  5. Claim
  6. Recovery
  7. Closure

The full guarantee lifecycle, in one platform.

About Prudence

Prudence

What Prudence does for your scheme

01

Know your exposure every month, not every year.

Every guaranteed loan is reconciled with the bank's report each month. The amount at risk, leverage and, where the scheme uses a claims cap, its headroom are recalculated with every change, so the fund's position is always current.

02

Every decision defensible to your Board, auditors and funders.

A second person on every claim, disbursement and recovery decision, and on every application and report the scheme reviews. Committee and Board decisions are recorded with their reference and signed document, and the audit trail cannot be edited.

03

Claims and recoveries handled by the rules, not by negotiation.

Prudence calculates each claim from the reconciled loan balance and the scheme's rules: waiting periods, an optional claims cap for each bank and portfolio year, and a fixed order for sharing recoveries between the scheme and the bank.

04

Your scheme, your rules, your existing portfolio.

Prudence is configured to your scheme's own policies rather than rebuilt for each client. Your existing guarantees are brought across at a cut-over date in a guided migration: each bank confirms its own records before anything is loaded, and every step is recorded.

Built on more than 30 years of development-finance work, with a sustained focus on how credit guarantee schemes actually operate.

Let's talk about your scheme.

Whether a scheme is still an idea or has been running for years, we can help at every stage.

Contact us at directions@kdfcorp.com

Contact us
  • Feasibility studies and business plans for new credit guarantee schemes
  • Redesigning or restructuring an existing scheme
  • Financial modelling, operating processes, policies and manuals
  • Moving from individual guarantees to a portfolio scheme
  • Training for the scheme team and partner financial institutions
  • Running the scheme on Prudence