CAIRO  - Egypt's Pharos Holding investment bank will launch microfinancial portfolio services in the first quarter of 2019, Co-CEO Aladdin El-Afifi told Reuters in an interview.

The Cairo-based investment bank, which also offers asset management, securities brokerage and bookkeeping operations, hopes to start offering non-banking financial services and buy into private equity in 2019.

(Reporting by Ehab Farouk; writing by Nadine Awadalla; editing by Jason Neely) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))