The War Finance Corporation was a government corporation in the United States created to give financial support to industries essential for World War I, and to banking institutions that aided such industries.
It continued to give support to various efforts during the interwar period.
The corporation was created by a Congressional act of April 5, 1918, and abolished on July 1, 1939.
After the armistice in late 1918, the Corporation assisted in the transition to peacetime by financing railroads under government control, and making loans to American exporters and agricultural cooperative marketing associations.
Eugene Meyer, a wealthy and ambitious Wall Street financier, was its managing director.