Banking

The latest banking stories from Egypt and across the globe, by the Daily News Egypt banking team, including global insight and commentary on the top issues concerning this sector.
Latest Banking News

Mastercard announces roadmap for consistent contactless payments

Middle East, Africa recorded a 27-fold increase in contactless transactions in 2017

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SMEDA financed SMEs with EGP 16.7bn during Al-Sisi’s first term

Projects funded since president assumed office account for 50% of total funding…

Hossam Mounir

United Bank introduces credit rating service for SMEs in cooperation with I-Score

United Bank, I-Score play economically important complementary role, affirms El Kady

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4.712m credit cards in Egypt by end-2017: CBE

Top 5 Egyptian banks account for more than 96% of POS, 69.48%…

Hossam Mounir

Non-performing loans fell to 4.9% of loans at end-2017: CBE

Banks allocated EGP 109.979bn to face NPLs, including EGP 68.175bn by top…

Hossam Mounir

Egyptian banks make EGP 59.075bn profits in 2017: CBE

Top 5 banks accounted for 47.424% of total profits, top 10 achieved…

Hossam Mounir

Banque du Caire contributes to EGP 568m loan to Zizinia El Mostakbal project

Bank is keen to support real estate sector through pumping all necessary…

Hossam Mounir

SMEDA financed 48,000 projects in Alexandria worth EGP 1.2bn

Authority offered grants of EGP 131.7m to implement labour-intensive infrastructure projects

Hossam Mounir

Suez Canal Bank achieved net profit of EGP 356m by end-2017

Total bank budget rose to EGP 40bn, up by EGP 8.6bn from…

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