JBIC's International Financial Operations contribute to the promotion of Japanese exports and imports, as well as Japanese economic activities overseas, and to the stability of the international financial order. An important source of finance is funds from the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program (FILP), which manages postal savings deposits, employee pension funds and national pension funds. Other sources include bond issues in international capital markets and internal funds including retained interest income from past loans. International Financial Operations are bound by an obligation to maintain "financial soundness" in order to ensure effective and efficient undertakings. Specifically, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation Law requires that repayment for the loans and guarantees should be ascertained ("certainty of repayment") and that expenditures should not exceed revenues ("sufficient revenues to cover expenditures").

• Export loans
• Import loans
• Overseas investment loans
• Untied loans
• Bridge loans
• Equity participation
• Guarantees