Featured NBE, EBRD ink $100m MSME financing pact as bank’s new VP visits Cairo Yomna Yasser Dec 8, 2025 0 The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) signed Monday a $100 million financing agreement with the European Bank for…
Featured EBRD, GCF grant $4m green loan to Jordan’s MFW Aya El Sayed Apr 7, 2025 0 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have extended a US$ 4…
Featured Egypt’s MSMEDA allocates over EGP 500m to boost small, micro enterprises Aya El Sayed Feb 2, 2025 0 Egypt’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Agency (MSMEDA) has allocated more than 500 million…
Initiatives Egypt’s MSMEDA, Ebda pact to boost small enterprises Aya Anwar Aug 15, 2024 0 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) and Ebda have signed a cooperation protocol to…
Featured Egypt’s MSMEDA achieves major project support Aya Anwar Jul 30, 2024 0 Egypt's Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has achieved major milestones, including…
Tech/AI Egypt’s PM inaugurates Turathna exhibition for handicrafts, heritage Nada Ali Oct 10, 2022 0 Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has inaugurated on Sunday the fourth edition of Turathna Exhibition for…
Money MSMEDA injects EGP10mln to covert to convert cars to natgas mohamed Hamdy Mar 25, 2020 0 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency (MSMEDA) has signed a 10 million Egyptian pounds deal with…
Money Egypt’s MSMEDA signs €27 million EU grant deal on irregular migration Amwal Al Ghad English Feb 3, 2020 0 Egypt's Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has on Monday signed a €27 million ($29.8…
Money Egypt’s MSMEDA negotiating €600 mln loans during 2020 mohamed Hamdy Jan 15, 2020 0 Egypt’s state-run Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) is negotiating for €600 million…
Money Egypt’s MSMEDA negotiating €50 million loans from World Bank, EU mohamed Hamdy Dec 25, 2019 0 Egypt’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) is negotiating for €50 million ($55.5…
Money Egypt’s central bank plans United Bank stake sale within H1-2020: governor Amwal Al Ghad English Dec 12, 2019 0 Egypt’s Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer said on Wednesday he expects the deal to sell a stake in the United Bank…
Featured Egypt’s MSMEDA injects EGP 2.8 bln into micro, small enterprises in H1 2019 Amwal Al Ghad English Aug 21, 2019 0 Egypt's Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) said it has pumped in the first half of 2019 a sum…
Money Egypt’s MSMEDA to ink EU €27 million grant next month mohamed Hamdy Jul 29, 2019 0 Egypt’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (MSMEDA) will sign by next month a €27 million…
Money MSMEDA eyes EGP300mln funding agreements with SAIB, Banque Du Caire mohamed Hamdy May 7, 2019 0 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) is seeking to sign two micro finance agreements of…
Money Egypt’s MSMEDA signs 7 funding deals with international institutions mohamed Hamdy Feb 25, 2019 0 The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has signed seven funding deals with…
Financial Institutions Egypt’s MSME agency negotiating $300 mln World Bank financing package mohamed Hamdy Jul 16, 2018 0 Egypt’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) is negotiating a $300 million financing…
Financial Institutions France’s AFD allocates €50 mln to fund Egyptian women-led projects Amwal Al Ghad English Jun 4, 2018 0 France’s state development agency AFD plans to provide €50 million ($58.4 million) financing to support Egyptian…
Financial Institutions MSMEDA inks 20 mln pounds contract with Plus Leasing for developing SMEs aya salah Jan 1, 2018 0 Egypt's Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) signed a 20 million ($11…
Banks MSMEDA opens a new office in Cairo’s Shak El Thoban to boost SMEs aya salah Dec 17, 2017 0 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) opened a new office in Shak El-Thoban, South of…
Banks Sisi highlights Egypt’s new measures to support SMEs at Africa 2017 Forum Yomna Yasser Dec 9, 2017 0 Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt has taken different measures to support owners of micro, small,…
Banks Women-led businesses capture 70% of Egypt banks’ MSME funding Yomna Yasser Oct 26, 2017 0 Egyptian central bank’s assistant sub-governor says around 70 percent of the banks’ financing for micro, small and…
Banks Banque Misr endorses 2045 strategy to expand funding for SMEs Yomna Yasser Aug 1, 2017 0 Egypt's second biggest bank, state-run Banque Misr has endorsed a strategy, named 2045, aiming to expand its…
Banks Banque Misr: Small business financing hits 2 bln pounds Yomna Yasser Jun 15, 2017 0 Egypt’s second largest state-owned lender, Banque Misr says its has increased its financing for small-sized…
Real Estate Tatweer Misr celebrates UN’s MSMEs Day Yomna Yasser May 21, 2017 0 Ahmed Shalaby, Egyptian property developer Tatweer Misr’s Managing Director and ICSB Board Member, spoke at the…
Banks AlexBank secures Germany’s SANAD $10 mln loan for Egypt MSMEs Yomna Yasser Sep 27, 2016 0 Egypt's AlexBank, a member of Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo Group, has received Tuesday an additional $10 million…
Industry & Trade Egypt mulls creating industrial zones for SMEs Yomna Yasser Sep 20, 2016 0 Egypt is studying establishing industrial zones in villages and governorates where lands will be offered under the…
Banks Egypt’s Alexandria Business Association injects $12mn into micro loans in January Noha Gad Jan 31, 2016 0 Egypt's Alexandria Business Association (ABA) has pumped 95 million Egyptian pounds (US$12 million) into around…
Financial Institutions Alexandria Business Association injects $140mn for micro enterprises in 2015 Noha Gad Dec 31, 2015 0 Alexandria Business Association (ABA) has pumped 1.1 billion Egyptian pounds (US$140.4 million) 345,000 loans for…
Financial Institutions SFD-Egypt eyes boosting funds by 35% by 2016 Noha Gad Dec 22, 2015 0 Egyptian Social Fund for Development (SFD) targets boosting the volume of finances for Micro, Small and Medium…
Financial Institutions SFD finances for Egypt’s micro enterprises exceed target for 2015 Noha Gad Dec 5, 2015 0 The finances of Egypt's Social Development Fund (SFD) for micro enterprises recorded 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds…
Financial Institutions Lead Foundation loans $29 million to micro enterprises in Egypt Noha Gad Dec 2, 2015 0 Egyptian NGO, Lead Foundation's current portfolio for micro enterprises reached 225 million Egyptian pounds…
Banks Egypt’s Industrial Development Bank pumps $25mn into micro enterprises Noha Gad Dec 2, 2015 0 Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt (IDWBE) has pumped around 200 million Egyptian pounds (US$25.5…
Financial Institutions Egypt to re-loan $1.7bn to MSMEs and young entrepreneurs Yomna Yasser Nov 21, 2015 0 Egyptian government is to provide more than US$1.7 billion for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)…
Egypt News Egypt in talks over €175mn agreements with Germany Yomna Yasser Nov 2, 2015 0 Egypt is negotiating with Germany seeking to sign cooperation agreements worth more than €175 million (US$192.5…
Industry & Trade Egypt’s Trade provides Small Enterprises with Financial and Technical Aids aya salah Jun 7, 2015 0 Egypt's Industry Ministry is keen on developing small and micro enterprises through providing integrated bunch of…
Banks AlexBank Decides to Contribute to Sisi’s Fund, Withdraws Previous Remarks Yomna Yasser Aug 12, 2014 0 AlexBank, a member of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, will donate to 'Long Live Egypt' Fund, CEO Roberto Vercelli…
Banks SANAD issues $10 Million Loan to ALEXBANK in Egypt Yomna Yasser Jul 14, 2014 0 The SANAD Fund for MSME (SANAD) signed a US$10 million senior loan contract with ALEXBANK. This loan, SANAD’s first…
Tech news Intel Challenges “Antitrust Fine” in European Court Administrator Apr 25, 2012 0 U.S. chip-maker Intel Corp will ask Europe's second-highest court in July to scrap a 1.06 billion euro EU antitrust…