The Social Fund for Development (SFD) will receive the US$ 120 million second tranche of the US$ 300 million finance which was agreed upon with the World Bank by the second half of 2013, said Essam el-Korashy, head of SME development group at SFD.
SFD had earlier received the first tranche which is (...)
The Chairman of Egyptian Islamic Finance Association, Dr. Mohamed El-Beltagy, has revealed that the volume of global Islamic banking has reached US$ 1.500 trillion at the end of last March, citing statistics from international financial institutions.
El-Beltagy expected Islamic banking to (...)
The Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) Monetary Policy Committee is expected to leave overnight deposit and lending rates unchanged at 9.75% and 10.75% respectively, as well as repo rates at 10.25% and credit and discount rates at 10.25% in its meeting on Thursday.
Bankers ruled out that the committee (...)
Nine banks approved to contribute to the US$ 1.250 billion loan arranged by the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), Banque Misr, Commercial International Bank (CIB), Banque Du Caire and Arab International Bank for the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (Ethydco).
China Development Bank, Export (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt has delayed signing finance contracts slated to be sealed today with the Social Fund for Development (SFD).
The bank was about to sign a contract worth EGP 75 million after reducing its value from EGP 100 million that will finance the current (...)
Société Arabe Internationale de Banque (SAIB) withdrew from the consortium arranging EGP EGP 1.07 billion loan for the Egyptian Steel Group, sources said.
The consortium is led by Banque Misr and Bank Audi Egypt and comprised of Egyptian Arab Land Bank (EALB) and United Bank. The loan arrangers are (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt targets to offer finances worth EGP 250 million to medium-sized enterprises in electricity and construction sectors before the end of Q1.
The bank adopts a strategy to expand in financing medium enterprises while banks retreat from contributing (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt targets to sign debt settlement agreements worth EGP 500 million with a number of customers in 2013.
Settling bad debts comes at the top of the bank's priorities in 2013 as it plans to receive EGP 11 million in cash under debt settlement (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt targets to sign a protocol of cooperation with a number of authorities which are subsidiary to the Ministry of Industry and the Industrial Modernization Centre (IMC). The protocol stipulates that the bank offers financial support and the Ministry (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt's retail loan portfolio reached EGP 108 million at the end of 2012, compared to EGP 18 million at the end of 2011, registering an increase of EGP 90 million.
Such increase is a result of the bank's expansion in a number of finance products such (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt injected credit facilities worth EGP 25 million, to bail out four faltering customers in the industrial sector.
Hamdi Azzam, member of the bank's board, stated that the bank finalized debt settlement agreements worth EGP 520 million with 100 (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt plans to sign finance agreements worth EGP 250 million with the Social Fund for Development (SFD) in 2013 to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The bank has met a delegation from SFD last week and they agreed to divide the finance into (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt's SME finance portfolio grew by 141% to reach EGP 350 million at the end of 2012, compared to EGP 144 million at the end of 2011.
The bank raised the number of its customers by 245%, raising its customer base to 352 customers, compared to 136 (...)
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt finalized debt settlement agreements worth EGP 520 million with 100 faltering customers in 2012.
The bank reduced non-performing loan portfolio to EGP 1.640 billion, down from EGP 1.750 billion last year, said Hamdi Azzam, member of board at the (...)
Egypt's foreign cash reserves dropped US$ 448 million to reach US$ 15.035billion at the end of last November, compared to US$ 15.483 billion at the end of last October.
Banking experts said such retreat in international reserves was a result of the political turmoil which reduced tourism income, (...)
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) plans to provide Egypt with US$ 920 million worth of finances; of which US$ 800 million allocated for water pumping stations and US$ 120 million for an electricity generation plant in Damietta, said Zain Zahran, executive director of IDB.
On the sidelines of Sukuk (...)
The Ministry of Finance has started three projects that will be financed through sukuk which are Ain Shams-10th of Ramadan Train Project, Black Sand Project in Kafr El-Sheikh and Wheat Silos, said the Minister Fayad Abdel Monem.
Abdel Monem added to Amwal Al Ghad that the executive regulation will (...)
The Egyptian Minister of Finance Fayad Abdel Monem stated that issuing sukuk (Islamic bonds) is an important step towards achieving sustainable development in Egypt in the upcoming period as the new instrument can finance all investment fields and activities.
Abdel Monem has inaugurated on Sunday (...)
The Egyptian government will not amend the economic reform plan submitted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), unless the Shura Council objects to the country's public budget, said the Minister of Finance Fayad Abdel Monem.
On the sidelines of Sukuk Practical Applications Conference, Abdel (...)
Zain Zahran, executive director of Islamic Development Bank, has revealed that the total value of agreements signed with the Egyptian government reached US$ 8.1 billion.
The latest financing package from IDB to Egypt is worth US$ 800 million and will be allocated for infrastructure projects, he (...)
An alliance, comprised of Al-Bareeq Group, Dar for Trading & Contracting (DETAC), Siemens Medical Equipment and G4S-Lotus Facilities Management, is in talks with a number of investment funds to contribute to financing the Alexandria University hospitals project.
Sources said the value of (...)