A consortium of Gulf banks, including Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Emirates NBD and Qatar’s Khaleeji Commercial Bank, led a syndicated loan arrangement. for Bank of Egypt About 250 million dollars, according to what banking sources familiar with the matter told Al Arabiya.net.
The sources added that the loan obtained by the bank for a period of 3 years, its proceeds will be used for the general financing purposes of the bank, which is the second largest governmental bank in the country and finances a large share of projects in the local market.
The bank’s return to the global debt markets comes a few months after it obtained the largest syndicated loan in its history, amounting to about one billion dollars.
Among the other banks that worked on the deal as issue managers, Doha Bank and the National Bank of Egypt unit in Britain, according to the sources.
It was not immediately possible to contact the bank to comment on the matter.
The bank’s return to the global debt markets coincides with some pressures on the assets of the Egyptian banking sector, with net foreign assets recording in the negative range, reaching about negative 7 billion dollars at the end of last November, which means that banks’ foreign exchange obligations exceed what they have.
Last month, the Central Bank of Egypt announced the availability of the emergency liquidity mechanism, which allows it to intervene quickly and provide the dollar liquidity that banks need if the need arises.