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Parent bank: IVIDA FamicordonBusiness Experience
IVIDA was originally named IVIDA El Banco de cordón de IVI, belonging to the IVI Group, the largest private European infertility group. Since early 2019, IVIDA belongs to the FamiCord Group of cord blood banks. IVIDA Famcordon S.A. is also part of the Asociación Española de Bancos de Células Madre (ABACELL).
IVIDA Famicordon is primarily a family bank but also provides "cross-over" public banking for families who store their baby's cord blood within Spain. If the cord blood matches a patient seeking a donor, it will be released for transplant and the family will be reimbursed. Cord blood storage in Spain is never fully private: Under the national regulations of Spain, any cord blood unit banked within the country must submit to compulsory declaration of the HLA (human leukocyte antibody) type on an international registry. Hence, every cord blood unit stored within Spain is listed on the international registry as a potential public unit in case it matches a patient in need.