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Location of Egypt. Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.Egypt's economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, petroleum imports, natural gas, and tourism; there are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe.
1995 — BC joined with Bank of Alexandria, National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr and Kato Aromatics to found Cairo International Bank in Uganda. 1997 — Saudi Cairo Bank merged with United Saudi Commercial Bank to form United Saudi Bank. BC's share position fell to 9.8%. 1999 — Ownership of Banque du Caire et de Paris became BNP 76% and BC 22%.
First Abu Dhabi Bank - Misr (FAB), part of First Abu Dhabi Bank Group; Ahli United Bank - Egypt (AUB), part of Ahli United Bank Group; Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt; Housing and Development Bank (HD-Bank), state-controlled; Al Baraka Bank of Egypt S.A.E. National Bank of Kuwait - Egypt (NBK), part of National Bank of Kuwait Group
HSBC Bank Egypt was established in 1982 as Hongkong Egyptian Bank with 40% HSBC ownership. In January 1994, the bank was renamed Egyptian British Bank under the same shareholding structure. The bank took the name HSBC Bank Egypt in April 2001 following an increase in shareholding by the HSBC Group's from 40% to 94.5% of its issued share capital .
1964 Bank of Alexandria acquired Banque du Nile and Import-Export Bank of Egypt. October 17, 2006 The Egyptian government privatized Bank of Alexandria. Sanpaolo IMI, the Italian bank which itself was acquired by Banca Intesa, agreed to pay $1.6 billion for 80% of Bank of Alexandria. This was the first privatization in Egypt of a fully ...
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(The National Bank of Egypt was British-owned, and all the other banks in Egypt were owned by foreigners.) Harb modeled Bank Misr's operations on those of Deutsche Orientbank with which he was familiar due to his friendship with the owner of a Sephardi Jewish bank, Banque Suarès. Harb established Banque Misr and its companies on the basis of ...
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