Egypt’s banks provided EGP 253 bln in finances

The beneficiaries included big and medium-sized enterprises whose businesses exceed EGP 50 million for each, in addition to startups and small firms affiliated to big ones.

The finances were extended under an initiative launched by the CBE in 2019 to support the industrial sector through providing loans with a decreasing interest rate of 10 percent. The CBE included the agriculture and construction sectors to the initiative in 2020 to support them amid the pandemic crisis, reducing the interest rate to 8 percent.

The data showed that these finances were provided as short and long-term credit facilities as well as in capital finances for those firms for funding purchasing production supplies, equipment, materials and financing their production lines for the sake of raising those firms’ productive capacities.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the CBE launched new initiatives as well as extending the coverage of current ones to include more sectors in a bid to alleviate the negative impacts on the businesses and to protect the national economy against these implications.