Ivanka Trump to help select candidate to lead World Bank - White House

FILE PHOTO: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Ivanka Trump attend an event on women's entrepreneurship during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ivanka Trump will help manage the Trump administration's selection of a U.S. candidate for the position of World Bank Group president, a White House official said on Monday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not public, dismissed a report in the Financial Times that floated Ivanka's name as a possible candidate and was repeated by several other media outlets over the weekend.