titleEgypt Sectors <subtitle type="text"></subtitle> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://marcopolis.net"/> <id>https://marcopolis.net/</id> <updated>2024-04-27T09:39:28+00:00</updated> <author> <name>Marcopolis</name> <email>info@marcopolis.net</email> </author> <generator uri="http://joomla.org" version="1.6">Joomla! - Open Source Content Management</generator> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://marcopolis.net/egypt-sectors/feed/atom.htm?SETSTYLE=0"/> <entry> <title>Exclusive Interview with EGX, Leading Stock Exchange in Africa 2015-08-04T12:09:50+00:00 2015-08-04T12:09:50+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/exclusive-interview-with-egx-leading-stock-exchange-in-africa.htm Dominika Bzduchova dominika@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Dr Mohammed Omran, Chairman of Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX)" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2015/interviews/egx/Dr-Mohammed-Omran-Chairman-Egyptian-Stock-Exchange-EGX.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>In September last year, during the celebrations in the New York Stock Exchange, Egypt was the winner of the best innovative stock exchange in the entire African continent.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Dr Mohammed Omran, Chairman of Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX)" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2015/interviews/egx/Dr-Mohammed-Omran-Chairman-Egyptian-Stock-Exchange-EGX.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>In September last year, during the celebrations in the New York Stock Exchange, Egypt was the winner of the best innovative stock exchange in the entire African continent.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Industrial Development Agency in Egypt: Support for Egyptian SMEs 2015-08-04T12:19:23+00:00 2015-08-04T12:19:23+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/industrial-development-agency-in-egypt-support-for-egyptian-smes.htm Dominika Bzduchova dominika@marcopolis.net <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Dr Abla Abdel-Latif, Advisor to the Minister of Industry, Industrial Development Agency" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2015/interviews/ida/Dr-Abla-Abdel-Latif-Advisor-Minister-Industry-Industrial-Development-Agency.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>There is something interesting about Egypt as far as SMEs are concerned. Anything and everything that you can imagine is already there in terms of services. Only people don’t know about it. Or they are isolated as islands or the services are offered to them in a very small portion. Whatever practice you can imagine in the world, already exists here in Egypt. The whole idea is to coordinate the efforts.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" alt="Dr Abla Abdel-Latif, Advisor to the Minister of Industry, Industrial Development Agency" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2015/interviews/ida/Dr-Abla-Abdel-Latif-Advisor-Minister-Industry-Industrial-Development-Agency.jpg" height="110" width="200" /> <p>There is something interesting about Egypt as far as SMEs are concerned. Anything and everything that you can imagine is already there in terms of services. Only people don’t know about it. Or they are isolated as islands or the services are offered to them in a very small portion. Whatever practice you can imagine in the world, already exists here in Egypt. The whole idea is to coordinate the efforts.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Egypt is mainly an equities market, insurance and mortgage markets are developed but still limited - EFSA 2014-12-18T13:36:53+00:00 2014-12-18T13:36:53+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/egypt-is-mainly-an-equities-market-insurance-and-mortgage-markets-are-developed-but-still-limited-efsa.htm Peter Matay domenica.iza@hotmail.com <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="egypt-is-mainly-an-equities-market-insurance-and-mortgage-markets-are-developed-but-still-limited-efsa-1812.htm"><img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2014/interviews/efsa/Egyptian-Financial-Supervisory-Authority-(EFSA)-Sherif-S.-Samy-Chairman.jpg" alt="Sherif S. Samy, Chairman of Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA)" height="100" width="181" /></a></p> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"EFSA is the result of unifying all the financial regulators. Our Constitution mentions EFSA, or the non-banking finance regulator as an independent body. We regulate 6 activities, capital markets, insurance, private pensions, mortgage, leasing and factoring. And as a recent development, for the first time in Egypt, microfinance. It is challenging."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><a href="egypt-is-mainly-an-equities-market-insurance-and-mortgage-markets-are-developed-but-still-limited-efsa-1812.htm"><img style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px; float: left;" src="images/stories/egypt-report/2014/interviews/efsa/Egyptian-Financial-Supervisory-Authority-(EFSA)-Sherif-S.-Samy-Chairman.jpg" alt="Sherif S. Samy, Chairman of Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA)" height="100" width="181" /></a></p> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"EFSA is the result of unifying all the financial regulators. Our Constitution mentions EFSA, or the non-banking finance regulator as an independent body. We regulate 6 activities, capital markets, insurance, private pensions, mortgage, leasing and factoring. And as a recent development, for the first time in Egypt, microfinance. It is challenging."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> Best Hotel in Cairo: On the Crossroads of Modernity and History 2015-08-11T09:06:58+00:00 2015-08-11T09:06:58+00:00 https://marcopolis.net/best-hotel-in-cairo-on-the-crossroads-of-modernity-and-history.htm Dominika Bzduchova dominika@marcopolis.net <p><img src="images/stories/egypt-report/2014/videos/marriott/best-hotel-cairo.jpg" alt="Best Hotel in Cairo: On the Crossroads of Modernity and History" style="border-width: 0px; margin-right: 20px; float: left;" height="110" width="200" />"If you are looking at us compared to some of the hotels in the city, our Nile location is a plus. We are right on the water with Nile-view rooms. We are on the Zamalek side of the city," says Richard S. Zeolla, general manager of Cairo Marriott Hotel &amp; Omar Khayyam Casino.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> <p><img src="images/stories/egypt-report/2014/videos/marriott/best-hotel-cairo.jpg" alt="Best Hotel in Cairo: On the Crossroads of Modernity and History" style="border-width: 0px; margin-right: 20px; float: left;" height="110" width="200" />"If you are looking at us compared to some of the hotels in the city, our Nile location is a plus. We are right on the water with Nile-view rooms. We are on the Zamalek side of the city," says Richard S. Zeolla, general manager of Cairo Marriott Hotel &amp; Omar Khayyam Casino.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p>