Who We Are

National Standard Finance (National Standard) and its managed investment entities worldwide make up the world’s first globally integrated exclusively dedicated infrastructure and sovereign debt investor with geopolitical economic policy experience and capabilities. 

National Standard and its managed entities are an American based privately owned financial and services company that receives its capital support from a mixture of large North American and European based financial institutions, institutional investors and some of the world’s leading global investment banks which provide us with the financial backing and experience to tackle the most complex and challenging financial transactions.  National Standard maintains  14 international regional offices and professionals in the global markets we serve and is governed by a Global Management Committee and Board of Directors.

National Standard serves the global sovereign, sub-sovereign, financial institutions and infrastructure financial markets as the leading go-to financial partner for cross border financial transactions.  National Standard is a leading progressive institution in Foreign Direct Lender using transformative  liquidity and structured debt capital across the global markets.

We at National Standard, provide long-term debt financing products, policy expertise based bespoke and best of class advisory solutions to governments, financial and banking markets and the infrastructure industry around the world in the markets we serve.

We built our organization, products and reputation around the unique needs of three distinct clients:

Unlike traditional banks and equity investors, National Standard is the architect of sophisticated institutional liquidity capital that supports our public sector clients’ national and geopolitical economic and infrastructure policy.

We accomplish this by providing long-term, high leverage, flexible and covenant light structured debt financing to:

Complimentary of our finance products, we advise and pilot our clients with the creation, management and implementation of national and geopolitical economic and infrastructure policy initiatives at the macro and micro level on a bespoke basis.
These may include Marshall Plan oriented infrastructure and economic policy plans.

In the private sector, National Standard provides passive direct investment to banks, non-bank financial institutions and insurance companies.

In this asset class, we act as a primary or alternative source of long term liquidity to financial and insurance global markets as a private alternative to raising liquidity via public bonds or Central Bank borrowing.