22 April 2014
The Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt (IDWB) reported EGP 460 million in its total finances for the SMEs during the first quarter of 2014.  In Q1/2013, the bank registered EGP 400 million in its total funding for the SMEs.

In this respect, Hamdi Azzam - Executive Board Member at IDWB - said his bank is due to sign within the next week an EGP 35 million contract with Egypt's Social Fund for Development (SFD -Egypt). The contract will go for financing the owners of the partially-automated bakeries in Egypt so as to be diverted to fully automated systems, he noted.

© Amwal Alghad 2014