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Isadore Sharp

Isadore ("Issy") Sharp, born 1931, is a Canadian hotelier who founded Four Seasons Hotels in Toronto in 1960 and led it as chairman and chief executive for decades.

Isam Al Sager

Isam Al Sager is a Kuwaiti banker who has served as Group CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait since 2014 and as Vice Chairman since 2022.

Isbank

Isbank, formally Türkiye İş Bankası A.Ş., is Turkey's largest private bank by total assets, total loans, and total deposits. Founded in 1924, its shares include a 28.09% stake from Atatürk's estate, represented by the CHP.

Iseed Ventures

iSeed Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm led by Adam Lin that invests at the seed and early stage, with a stated focus on AI companies.

Ishaan Mittal

Ishaan Mittal is an Indian venture capital investor who rose to Managing Director at Sequoia Capital India and Peak XV Partners over roughly 13 years.

IShares

IShares, formerly World Equity Benchmark Shares, is BlackRock's exchange-traded fund brand and the world's largest ETF platform, with more than 1,700 funds and $6.35 trillion in assets.

Ishwar Sridharan

Ishwar Sridharan is an Indian technology executive who co-founded Exotel, a Bengaluru-based cloud-telephony company, in 2011 and served as its chief operating officer until resigning in 2025.

Isidor Straus

Isidor Straus, also known as Isadore Strauss, was a German-born American merchant and congressman who co-owned Macy's and died with his wife Ida in the Titanic sinking in 1912.

Isidro A. Consunji

Isidro A. Consunji is a Filipino businessman who leads DMCI Holdings, the Philippine conglomerate founded by his father David M. Consunji, and chairs Semirara Mining and Power.

Islam Shawky

Islam Shawky is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob, a Cairo-based payments company serving over 350,000 merchants across five Middle East countries, in 2015.

Islamic banking and finance

Islamic banking and finance, also known as Islamic finance or Sharia banking, is banking structured to comply with Islamic law, which prohibits interest and excessive uncertainty.

Islamic Development Bank

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is a multilateral development bank headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that finances development in its 57 member countries exclusively through Islamic Shari'ah-compliant instruments.

Islamic economics

Islamic economics, also called Islamic economy, is a heterodox school of economic thought that seeks human well-being through allocation and distribution of resources in conformity with Islamic teachings, prohibiting interest, gambling, and excessive uncertainty.

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB, صدا و سیما) is Iran's state broadcaster, holding a constitutional monopoly over radio and television; formerly National Iranian Radio and Television.

Ismael Belkhayat

Ismael Belkhayat is a Moroccan technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Chari, a Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech company he started with Sophia Alj in 2020, valued at $125 million by 2025.

ISO 20022

ISO 20022 is an international standard, first published in 2004, for exchanging structured financial data; it replaced the SWIFT MT format for cross-border payments in 2025.

ISO 4217

ISO 4217 is the international standard that assigns every currency a unique three-letter alphabetic code and a three-digit numeric code for trade, commerce, and banking.

ISO 8583

ISO 8583 is the ISO interchange standard for financial-transaction-card messages, defining the structure by which terminals, acquirers, card networks, and issuers exchange and settle card transactions.

ISO 9000

ISO 9000 is a family of international quality management standards published by the ISO, first issued in 1987, with ISO 9001 the only member used for certification.

ISO 9362

ISO 9362, also known as the SWIFT code or BIC standard, defines the 8- or 11-character Bank Identifier Code used to route international payments, with SWIFT as registration authority.

ISO/IEC 7812

ISO/IEC 7812 is an international standard defining the numbering system for card issuers and the format of the primary account number on payment cards, expanded to 8-digit issuer identifiers in 2017.

Isocost

An isocost line is the set of all combinations of production inputs that cost the same total amount, written wL + rK = C; together with the isoquant it forms the graphical apparatus of cost minimization.

Isol

Isol (이솔), formally E-SOL, is a South Korean semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2018 by ex-Samsung mask specialist Kim Byung-gook, known for EUV mask inspection systems.

Isoquant

An isoquant is a curve showing all combinations of two inputs, such as capital and labor, that produce the same output; it is the producer-theory counterpart of the indifference curve.

Isotropic Systems

Isotropic Systems was a British satellite ground-terminal startup founded by John Finney around 2013 in Reading, England; it developed multi-beam lens antennas and rebranded as All.Space in 2022.

iSpot.tv

iSpot.tv is a privately held TV advertising measurement and analytics company founded by Sean Muller in 2012, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, measuring commercials on linear TV and streaming.

Isprava Group

Isprava Group is a Mumbai-based Indian luxury second-home developer founded in 2013 by brothers Nibhrant and Dhimaan Shah, building villas in Goa and other holiday destinations.

Isq Eleanor

ISQ Eleanor is a pair of Delaware co-investment funds, formed in 2022 in Miami and managed by I Squared Capital, reporting about $1.25 billion sold.

Isq Global Infrastructure

ISQ Global Infrastructure is the fund-vehicle family of I Squared Capital, a Miami-based global infrastructure private equity manager founded in 2012 with over $55 billion in assets.

ISQ Global InfraTech Fund

ISQ Global InfraTech Fund, L.P. is a Cayman Islands venture capital fund formed in 2020, managed from Miami, Florida by I Squared Capital Advisors and reporting about $139 million sold.