Contact Financial Holding launched the new product “Green Finance” to promote sustainability which is now influential on a local, regional, and global scale, especially considering the climate changes affecting the planet. Contact seeks to embrace sustainability and provide smart and environment-friendly projects and products. As a result, Contact is pioneering among non-banking financing services companies by dedicating a financial product that supports the transformation to the green economy.
Contact provides installments for multiple assets in the green financing product, such as solar panels, irrigation systems, greenhouses, developing and equipping projects of trench plantings and plastic sheets for tunnels and greenhouses, fishery ponds and equipment, poultry farms and equipment, and livestock farms and equipment for a payment plan up to five years with 0% down payment. The Green Finance product features monthly and quarterly repayment systems reflecting Contact’s understanding of agricultural activity and its cash flow cycle.
Green finance is a new shift in the financing sector, As this product focuses on environmental impacts as an environment-friendly economic activity and a way to achieve sustainable development. Among the many reasons that led Contact to move towards financing green products are the development and preserving the environment, stimulating efficient use of resources and energy, in addition, paying attention to the environmental aspect that is not a new thing to Contact Financial Holding, as the headquarters was the first green building in downtown Cairo since 2018, the group has also introduced several products concerned with the social interest, such as financing education and financing ride-sharing companies drivers.
In this context, Tamer Samir, Managing Director of Contact Finance, said: “The company is striving to launch products to achieve sustainability, and this direction is not a new thing to Contact, as we have always sought to achieve all that is beneficial to the welfare to our customers, and green financing, in particular, is an important and necessary step towards transforming the company’s business towards a greener future.
Said Zater, CEO of Contact Financial Holding, stressed the importance of introducing green financing in various financing sectors, and the commitment of all Contact Financial Holding entities to financing projects that provide tangible environmental and social benefits. Additionally, he assured the need to work on intensifying efforts to support financing plans aimed at building a more sustainable future. Contact will focus in the upcoming period on sustainability and how to achieve it by launching new green products to achieve modern developments that the country seeks, in terms of preserving the environment, protecting agricultural areas, reconstructing infertile areas, and converting them into green spaces which leads to a better future.