Our Story

For the past 35 years, Korpodeko has been fulfilling one core mission as a national development bank: enabling dreams, growth, and livelihoods.
We understand that the best and most innovative ideas are formed in the minds and hearts of creative, capable, and committed people.
Along our journey to drive prosperity, we’ve provided knowledge and guidance and financed many projects and companies, from aspiring entrepreneurs and young startups to prominent local and international companies that collectively form the backbone of Curaçao’s development.

We aspire to serve our clients as the leading, innovative and trusted provider of sustainable investments. As their partner in development, we aim to provide all-in-one solutions for all their entrepreneurial and business needs.

We want our clients to: Think Development, Think Korpodeko!

Our Impact

In 1985, Curaçao was in the midst of an imminent and explosive economic and social crisis. One of the direct remedial actions to address the crisis was incorporating a national development bank by the government and social partners.

Korpodeko was founded on April 23rd, 1985, as an instrument to help achieve a balanced socio-economic, cultural and educational development of Curaçao. The way to fight economic distress was to invigorate small, medium, and large businesses and organizations and encourage micro and macroeconomic development.

Korpodeko was later categorized as a credit institution and made subject to the supervision of the regulatory environment of banks and credit institutions by the Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten. Korpodeko complies with the Central Bank, as well as with international regulations.

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of total business

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of new entrepreneurs

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of total investments

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Economic contribution

Our Commitment to the Community

At Korpodeko, Corporate Citizenship is about creating sustainable shared value by delivering social, environmental, and economic benefits to all our stakeholders and the community.

Our Corporate Citizenship (CSR) Framework is built on the three sustainable development pillars – People, Planet and Prosperity.

Within each pillar, we have mapped our main commitments where we aim to have the greatest impact. Per pillar, we have indicated which Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we will work on by implementing our Corporate Citizenship strategy.

Read our full Corporate Social Responsibility Policy here

Read our latest Annual Report here

Our Team

We strive to work diligently on Curaçao’s development with a small but passionate team consisting of the Managing Director, Financial Director, Development Managers, and Financial & Administration Team.

Our work is supervised by a trusted board of 15 members that equally represent the government, labor unions, and the business community.

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