Tag: Central Bank of Egypt

CBE policies reduce car imports in 2016

NBE and Banque Misr restrict opening letters of credit for fully-manufactured models,…

Ahmed Amer

Limited impacts for recent CBE lending controls: Beltone

Reducing maximum loan per customer and bank contributions in capital market funds…

Hossam Mounir

Banks race to implement CBE’s programme for funding SMEs

Both Banque Misr and the Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt…

Hossam Mounir

Banque Misr begins activating CBE initiative to finance SMEs with 5% yield

This springs from the bank's commitment to promoting economic development and contributing…

Hossam Mounir

Local, international institutions offer to invest $1.168bn in treasury bills

The bills’ interest rate saw a 40 points increase compared to CBE’s…

Hossam Mounir

Government sought to decrease $60bn bill by ‘banning luxurious products’

Around $26bn of Egyptian imports are categorised as “essential”

Doaa Farid

International foreign reserves ends in 2015 with a slight increase

CBE's international foreign reserves increase by $23m at the end of December

Hossam Mounir

Government plans to borrow EGP 281.5bn from banks in next three months

Banks account for 75.5% of total releases of treasury bills and the…

Hossam Mounir

Stock market expected to decline due to increase in interest rates

Stock exchange to face short wave of profits as a result of…

Mohamed Ahmed

Egypt suffers under weight of excessive importing: Deputy CBE Governor

We spent $76bn on imports last year, of which $16bn did not…

Hossam Mounir