National Standard has a unique business model that develops and delivers complex funding and insurance products and services anchored on end to end risk management borrowed from the banking and insurance industries. The products and services are designed following intensive investigations to identify unique problems facing society today with the aim of achieving measurable, sustainable and positive impact. The business understands the end to end risk management processes involved in real estate finance, project and infrastructure finance, agriculture finance, mining finance, commodities trading finance and SME finance in order to manage risk. In the main business of risk management, insurance and financing, National Standard works with, leads and guides teams in the financial services and the built industries comprising various professionals that includes actuaries, chartered accountants, architects, quantity surveyors, project engineers, project managers, lawyers and other related professionals in cross-functional teams.

The activities National Standard engages include risk management-focused product design, deal origination, deal screening, advising project sponsors in deal structuring to manage risks, cash flow modeling, legal due diligence, technical due diligence, financial due diligence, drafting and negotiating funding and insurance term sheets, leading the credit approval process, leading the drafting of legal documentation, leading in ensuring that conditions precedents for financing and insurance are satisfied, leading in managing funding disbursements, and ensuring that all milestones and technical approvals are satisfied to satisfy funding and insurance requirements. National Standard has expertise in managing tightly controlled funding and insurance processes that rely heavily on certification of various stages of project implementation by technically competent professionals and regulators. National Standard is also highly experienced in the financing of the acquisition of existing infrastructure assets and related businesses and the subsequent management over the long term.