Benefitting from the nation’s increasing economic stability over the past year, Egypt’s banks have enjoyed both ratings upgrades and continued profitability. Thanks to an ambitious government development strategy and new investment legislation, the project finance pipeline is returning to form after a period of muted activity. Elsewhere on the...
One of the potentially positive results of Egypt’s improved economic situation is that it has compelled the government to get creative to meet social and fiscal obligations. Nowhere is this more apparent than in area funds – historically the preserve of financial houses, but recently a key area for the administration.
After several years marked by turbulence and uncertainty, Egypt’s economy received two welcome boosts in 2015. The first was the successful conclusion to the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in the first quarter of the year, which drew more than 70 senior executives from global firms, the leaders of major financial institutions...
Successive governments and central bank governors have highlighted the importance of extending credit to Egypt’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and in early 2015 Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab declared a renewed determination to support SME growth in a speech which called attention to the funding difficulties faced by small...
Commercial International Bank (CIB) was established in 1975 as a joint venture between the National Bank of Egypt (51%) and the Chase Manhattan Bank (49%). Today, the bank is the biggest publicly traded stock on the EGX30, with an index weight of approximately 38%, and the biggest and only exposure to a large cap bank in the Egyptian market....
Located at a crossroads between Africa, Asia and Europe, Egypt remains one of the world’s most strategically important countries, as it has been for millennia. Lying astride trade routes linking West, East, North and South, Egypt has long been at the heart of regional and global commerce. For the past century and a half, the Suez Canal has...
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