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Proof of Funds, sometimes referred to as a POF, is a financial document, usually a statement or letter, which shows one party to the next there is financial capability and funds available to complete a given transaction. It is most often provided by the account holder's bank in the form of a bank letter specific to the transaction in question. The bank letter assists the inquiring party with confidence there is cash funds available, that they are obtainable and legitimate.

A POF may also be used in the preliminary stages of credit enhancement when applying for financing or attempting to engage a party for several purposes including, but not limited to acquisitions of businesses, materials, equipment, automobiles, real estate, REOs, as well as banking instruments and financial instruments.

Arriving at successful project financing is not an easily achieved task in today's banking environment. Companies have gone away from traditional institutional financing in search of other more reliable channels of funds. This is where the advent of using bank instruments as a direct source of creating capital for project finance has opened up.

While it is true that a financial instrument is used for credit enhancement such as in the complicated structured financing employing collateralized debt; bank instruments can be used in a much more simplified fashion to unleash the power of bank credit lines needed to complete project finance.