Features
Egypt’s Recovery Room
Egypt is leading the region’s economic rebound, with special attention paid to nurturing the strong growth potential of smaller businesses.
Egypt
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Features
Expanding Opportunity: Q&A With Egypt’s CIB Chairman Hisham Ezz Al-Arab
Egypt’s entrepreneurs need innovative financial services delivered via mobile phone to become successful contributors to the economy, says CIB’s chairman and managing director, Hisham Ezz Al-Arab.
Features
Mideast Markets Curb Appeal
Following a period of relatively subdued infrastructure and real estate activity, 2017 was a better year in the Middle East; and 2018 should record more improvement. Transport-related projects remain essential to the region’s growth, but the most crucial area remains ...
Features
New Realities, New Technologies
The Middle East is striving to adapt to rapid economic and social change—with some success.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Egypt Floats Currency, And It Sinks. Then Rises.
The Egyptian pound was floated this fall, and quickly lost half its value. But the reform is part of restructuring Egypt's economy to encourage foreign investment.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Egypt: A Helping Hand For Start-Ups
Banks,tech firms and even universitiesare partnering to aid home-grown Egyptian fintechs.
Country Report
Egypt Gets With The Program
<strong>Egypt </strong>| Its IMF loan could ease investor concerns and end its foreign exchange shortage.
Award Winners
Winner Profiles | The Best In Islamic Finance | 2016
Global Finance magazine profiles the best Islamic Financial Institutions of 2016
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Eni Discovers Huge Natural Gas Reserves At Zohr
Eni, the Italian energy company that was unsuccessful in finding exploitable hydrocarbons in Cyprus, now has a major find on its hands elsewhere.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Suez Canal: Egyptian Economy Will See A Bump-upBut How Big?
At a lavish ceremony last month, the Egyptian government inaugurated the new Suez Canal, marking an expansion of the original project, which dates to 1869.
Country Report
Egyptian Economy Turns As Reforms Take Hold
Country Report | Egypt
Egypt may be on the verge of a major turnaround, as the most populous country in the Arab world looks set for sustained growth, lower unemployment and a manufacturing renaissance under president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Banking
EGYPT: AN INTERVIEW WITH CIB’S CHAIRMAN
Global Finance sat down with Egyptian bank CIB’s chairman and MD, Hisham Ezz Al-Arab, to discuss its strategy during the Arab Spring and how it plans to attract a younger clientele.