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Banks in Egypt provide returns on equity of 30% and more, which analysts say is high for the region

Reasons to be cheerful for UAE banks with Egyptian subsidiaries

Despite the plunge in the value of the Egyptian pound, UAE banks’ subsidiaries in the country remain a strong long-term asset, analysts have told AGBI. Three Emirati banks – Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank and Dubai’s Emirates NBD – have acquired Egyptian lenders. The pound-to-dollar exchange rate stood at about EGP31 at […]

Orascom is working on a number of transport projects in Egypt, including lines 3 and 4 of the Greater Cairo Metro

Egyptian builder blames currency turmoil for revenue slump

Egyptian construction giant Orascom has reported a 19 percent decline in revenue to about $3.4 billion last year, attributing most of the drop to the devaluation of the Egyptian pound. Orascom said that without the country’s foreign exchange issues, it would have reported a 5.5 percent increase in revenue compared to 2022, after completing a […]

Bank ABC Egypt's merger with Blom will double its number of branches and ATMs in the country

Egyptian banks complete merger but M&A activity falls

Bank ABC Egypt has announced the completion of its merger with Blom Bank Egypt, which aims to treble its market share in the North African country. The integration has doubled the size of the Egyptian network of branches and ATMs of Bahrain-based Bank ABC. It follows Bank ABC’s acquisition of a 99.5 percent stake in […]

Egypt IMF bank money withdrawal

What Egypt needs to do to please its $60bn backers

A fast-paced four weeks may have transformed Egypt’s short-term economic prospects – but only if the country abides by the programme agreed with the International Monetary Fund, observers say. Egypt’s international partners have pledged almost $60 billion in loans, grants and investment. The central bank has allowed the pound to slide for the first time […]

Experts believe that the plans made with UN Habitat may change significantly depending on the project's developers

Abu Dhabi’s futuristic vision of an Egyptian metropolis

By 2052, Egypt’s Ras El Hekma will be “competing with the most important cities of the world,” according to the new project’s promotional video. Published on February 23, the day the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ bought development rights to this stretch of coastline as part of a $35 billion deal, the video shows […]

Egypt's central bank said it planned to allow the exchange rate to be determined by market forces

Egypt central bank cancels meeting after interest rate hike

Egypt’s central bank has called off the meeting of its monetary policy committee (MPC) on March 28, citing the “sufficiency” of the special meeting held on March 6, during which it raised interest rates by 600 basis points.  The overnight lending and overnight deposit rates were set at 28.25 percent and 27.25 percent at the […]

People walk past a currency exchange point in Cairo. Egypt has secured billions of dollars of international funding in recent weeks

Egypt gets $6bn from World Bank to spur growth

The World Bank Group will offer more than $6 billion over the next three years to support Egypt’s economic recovery amid its foreign currency crunch. The Washington-headquartered group will allocate $3 billion for financial support to government programmes and the remaining $3 billion to the private sector, subject to board approval. The announcement comes after […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The EU has agreed $7.4bn of funding to Egypt

EU agrees $8bn funding package with Egypt

The European Union has agreed a €7.4 billion ($8 billion) funding package and upgraded its relationship with Egypt after a meeting in Cairo on Sunday between the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The deal consists of €5 billion in concessional loans, €1.8 billion of investments and €600 […]

Egypt has approved funding of €54 million from Germany to finance a smart energy project

Germany commits $282m in low-cost funding to Egypt

Germany has pledged to commit €258 million ($282 million) to Egypt in the form of debt swaps, grants and concessional financing, Egyptian minister of international cooperation Rania Al Mashat said. The government has approved €54 million from Germany to finance the smart energy project within the national platform of the Nexus of Water, Food and […]

The proposed initiative for an industrial zone on the Mediterranean coast aims to position Egypt as a manufacturing and export hub for Chinese products

Egypt and China in talks to set up industrial zone

Egyptian and Chinese officials have engaged in further discussions about setting up a Chinese industrial zone along the Mediterranean Sea, according to a local news report. Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Ahmed Samir, and Zhang Tao, the acting Chinese Ambassador to Cairo, discussed the progress made since last month’s meeting with Samir’s Chinese counterpart, […]

A woman shopping at a Cairo market. Egypt's inflation rate increase was driven by large spikes in the cost of food, health and education

Egypt’s inflation rate makes record jump in February

Inflation in Egypt rose unexpectedly in February, authorities reported this week, just days after the pound plummeted more than a third against the US dollar. On Sunday, the Egyptian state statistics agency Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (Capmas) announced that annual urban consumer price inflation rose to 35.6 percent last month, from 29.8 […]

Mohamed Maait, Egypt's finance minister, at an IMF/World Bank meeting in Marrakech on October 13. He said Cairo's panda bonds had a low interest rate of 3.5%

Egypt to get $20bn loan from global funders says minister

The expanded loan facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will allow Egypt to receive more than $20 billion in additional funding from global financial institutions. The additional funding is expected from the World Bank, the European Union (EU), the African Development Bank, the Arab Monetary Fund and others, finance minister Mohamed Maait told a […]

A ship in the Gulf of Suez before it enters the Suez Canal. The Canal accounts for a large proportion of Egypt's foreign currency revenue

Egypt outlook revised to positive after lending deals

Moody’s has upgraded Egypt’s outlook from negative to positive following the expanded $8 billion funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The credit-rating company also affirmed Egypt’s foreign currency ratings. The revision reflects the significant official and bilateral support announced and marked policy steps taken in the past week that will, if maintained, support macroeconomic […]

A man takes a photograph of the latest rates at a currency exhange in Cairo. The Egyptian government has said it will let the exchange rate be determined by market forces

Egypt secures expanded $8bn loan from IMF

Egypt will receive an expanded $8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after agreeing to implement a set of reforms and policies. The country is experiencing significant macroeconomic challenges due to the impact of the Gaza conflict on tourism and lower Suez Canal receipts, the IMF said in a statement. “The authorities are […]

Egyptian pound banknotes

Egyptian pound plunges 55% to match black market dollar

The Egyptian pound plunged by 55 percent on Wednesday to a record official low of 48 against the US dollar, bringing it almost in line with the parallel market rate.  The Egyptian central bank (CBE) said in a statement that it planned to allow the exchange rate to be determined by market forces. At 2pm […]

Taqa is planning to enter the marine petroleum well services sector, including drilling and exploration in Egypt

Saudi’s Taqa to quadruple energy investments in Egypt

Saudi Arabia’s Industrialization and Energy Services Company (Taqa) plans to quadruple investments in Egypt’s energy sector over the next two years, according to a media report. The company aims to double its business and services in Egypt, as well as expand into deepwater petroleum services by 2026, Daily News Egypt reported, citing Mario Ruscev, executive […]

Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, was speaking at the Marlog marine infrastructure conference in Alexandria

Egypt plans extension to make Suez Canal a ‘dual carriageway’

Egypt is to extend the “dual carriageway” segment of the Suez Canal, to allow northbound ships and southbound ships to travel the full length of the canal simultaneously. The canal’s first double-channel stretch opened in 2015. This extension will add 50km in the north and 30km in the south, the chairman of the Suez Canal […]