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The Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance of the Bank through continuous review and adherence to international best practice and standards. The Board determines the Bank's strategy, provides direction to the executive Management, ensures that the control framework is functioning in accordance with best practice and monitors executive Management's performance.

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Direct Investment & Business Development

  The department is responsible for the investment and business development activities including origination, structuring and execution of investment programs and activities, obtaining the required internal and regulatory approvals and evaluating investments in quoted and unquoted equities. It develops investments and asset allocation strategies / activities and completes the detailed due diligence and documentation in conjunction with consultants, partners, accounting firms and law firms. It also develops strategic relationships and performs the detailed evaluation of potential divestments.

Asset Management

  The department monitors the Bank's investments in private companies, real estate income generating properties and real estate development projects including effective record keeping relative to each investment to ensure efficient monitoring, cash inflow maximization and exit planning of investments.

It works closely with project sponsors to optimize the overall project implementation timetable; maximize project costs; and deliver project quality in order to ensure that planned project returns are achieved. The department arranges Shari'ah compliant corporate finance for projects designed to leverage equity funding, maximize free cash flows to equity and ROE. It executes planned exits in a timely and methodical manner to deliver investor returns.

In addition, it is responsible for investor reporting and relations including the preparation of periodic investment status reports.

Investment Placement

  The department is responsible for advising investors and placing IIB's investment offerings with sophisticated investors. Whilst mandated with the responsibility of maximizing investment placement, the department ensures that every investment placed with investors is consistent with the investment objectives and risk tolerance of investors.

Moreover, in order to achieve best practice governance within the framework of the ethical and regulatory requirements of the Central Bank of Bahrain, investments are placed with only those investors who have provided the detailed "Know Your Customer" (KYC) documents and have otherwise complied with all legal formalities associated with the placement of each investment.



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