H.E. Dr. Sahar Nasr

Minister of Investment & International Cooperation

H.E. Eng. Amr Nassar

Minister of Trade & Industry

Opening Speeches

Financial market is currently facing challenges including: ambiguities about the fate of state-owned companies IPOs program, aftereffects of emerging markets crisis, and higher interest rates in the global markets, However, in the midst of this panorama, investment banks are exploring good opportunities, which would help them retain profitability and maintain sustainability.
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Points of Discussion:
-&nbsp; What are the expected stakes of investment banks? And to what extent has the stock market declined?
-&nbsp; Opportunities to implement state-owned companies IPOS program and their impact on trading
-&nbsp; What is the projected impact of launching trading mechanisms in the stock market, and what are the other mechanisms that should be provided?
- Challenges and risks of the entry of new entities such as Shuaa Securities, KAMCO Investment Company and Renaissance Capital
-&nbsp; Are state entities investments in the stock market growing under Capital Market Act amendments?
-&nbsp; Will the specter of failure loom over the forthcoming offerings on the stock market?
-&nbsp; What are the limitations of regulators' intervention in the capital market?
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Waleed Zaki

Chairman & CEO of PHC

Hisham El Khazindar

Co-Founder & Managing Director of Qalaa Holdings

Karim Awad

EFG Hermes Group CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee

Amr Helal

CEO & regional director Renaissance capital for MENA Region

Rana Adawi

Chairperson of Acumen Asset Management

Investing Opportunities Emerging from Financial Market Crisis

Coffee Break

This session discusses the banking sector's prospects and risks in 2019 under significant changes including: the resumption of monetary easing plan by the central bank through lowering interest rate and subsequent reviving fortunes of both corporate and personal lending, and the ministry of finance's endeavor to oblige citizens to use e-payment for a wide range of services, as well as opera-tionalizing the first national e-payment card, making substantive amendments to mobile payment controls and expanding the role of Egyptian Credit Bureau "I-Score" Also, the session addresses some challenges, and how to be met, such as shortage of personnel, slowness of granting credit following state-owned companies and governmental bodies' tendency to borrow from external funders, and possible discontinuation of mortgage finance initiative&nbsp;
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Points of Discussion:
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;High interest rate and its impact on investment rates at banks&nbsp;
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How are banks poised for monetary easing phase and post-central bank initiatives?
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;State-owned companies and governmental bodies direction to external borrowing... how this has affected banks?&nbsp;
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Map of the sectors, which are the most attractive to finance in 2019
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Prospects and challenges of expansion in e-payment system
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Assessing what has been done in financial inclusion file&nbsp;
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I-Score... a more significant role in the coming period&nbsp;
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Shortage of personnel in the light of banking sector's massive expansion
- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Agents providing banking services and their role in the coming period&nbsp;

Ashraf Sabry

Chairman of Fawry

Amr Kamal

Chairman of Egyptian Arab Land Bank

Mohamed Kafafi

Chairman & CEO of | Score - Egyptian Credit Bureau

Dr. Yasser Ismail Hassan

Managing Director of the National Bank of Kuwait, Egypt

Tarek Fayed

Chairman & CEO of Banque Du Caire

Akram Tinawi

Managing Director & CEO of Bank ABC

Banking Sector Opportunities in E-Payment and Lower Interest Rate Year

Consumer financing is one of the most attractive financial activities in the recent period despite being the newest in the market. Thus, investment banks and financial institutions are competing for undertaking it given the fact that the activity makes it possible to provide financial services to wider segments of citizens. Also demand for consumer financing grows during periods of high inflation, which would motivate some to resort to hire-purchase in response to higher prices. Moreover, regulators have recently paid more attention to consumer financing. The central bank issued regulations on the activity a few months ago while the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) is planning to introduce controls during 2019.
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Points of Discussion:
-&nbsp; &nbsp;What is consumer financing? What is its philosophy? What are its growth prospects in the local market?
-&nbsp; Is consumer financing a financial activity requiring licensing like other non-banking activities? are the significant global experiences? How can consumer financing be regulated in the markets?&nbsp;
-&nbsp; Nature of commodities, which are the most relevant for consumer financing
- Required controls to regulate the activity by FRA
-&nbsp; Impact of the central bank's regulations on the activity&nbsp;
-&nbsp; How to promote banks' role to offer financings to operating providers
-&nbsp; How have firms achieved significant spread in a short time?&nbsp;
-&nbsp; &nbsp;Will the sector witness the entry of more firms during the next year?
-&nbsp; How about cooperatives and private associations undertaking sale upon credit activity?

Moataz El Dreny

Founding Partner of Dreny & Partners Law Firm

Dr. Mahmoud Khattab

Managing Director of B.TECH

Sherif Samy

Chairman of the National Company Asset Management & Investment

Mr. Hazem Moghazy

CEO of Aman Financial Services

Walid Hassouna

CEO of EFG Hermes Finance & Group Head of Debt Capital Markets

Consumer Financing... The Newest and Most Attractive Financial Activity

Mr. Mohamed Farid Saleh

The Chairman of the Financial Regulatory Authority

H.E. Dr. Hesham Arafat

Minister of Transport

Dr. Mohamed Maait

Minister of Finance

The State gives main priority to investing in SCZONE. This has been manifested during the past period through offering a variety of innovative incentives to investors, and completing infrastructure required for implementation progressively. This session is to discuss main investing opportunities in SCZONE, especially with regard to infrastructure of lands, for which industrial developers contracted over the past two years, and the developers' plans to attract investors to set up new projects in the area. The session highlights incentives provided by SCZONE to Port East Port Said Port and Port West Port Said Port, and the role of these incentives in stimulating maritime traffic in SCZONE ports, promoting the creation of logistics areas and encouraging export-oriented industries.
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Points of Discussion:
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-&nbsp; Corporations and industrial developers' plans for promoting contracted lands over the past two years under announcements about signing contracts for lands with extensive areas&nbsp;
-&nbsp; Investing opportunities in infrastructure, and the appropriate mechanism to connect utilities under an announcement by a firm that it intends to launch a joint entity with SCZONE to establish utilities and infrastructure company
- How to benefit from SCZONE incentives to stimulate strategic industries and deepening automotive industry as a start to automobile manufacturing strategy
-&nbsp; Amendments to PortEast and PortWest Port Said harbors duties and their impact on stimulating investment in logistics areas in the two ports' back hinterland, and how to develop a sustainable marketing plan in the two harbors&nbsp;

Ashraf Ezz El Din

Managing Director of Cairo Festival City

Dr. Nermine Tahoun

Managing Partner of Tahoun Law Office

Eng. Marwan El Sammak

CEO of Ship & C.R.E.W

Qassem Hassan

CEO of Group SEB Egypt

Dr. Ahmed Fikry Abdel Wahab

CEO of the Egyptian German Automotive Company

Gen. Abdel Kader Gab-Allah

Chairman of Canal Shipping Agencies Co

Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE)... Prospects and Challenges

This session discusses challenges that have faced real estate sector in 2018. Yet, firms operating in the sector managed to achieve good sales exceeding the last year.&nbsp;
Also, the session highlights the features of the year that witnessed running many projects nationwide topped by New Administrative Capital, which acquired the highest number of new projects in 2018. Further, the session discusses property developers' vision for available opportunities in the market, challenges facing them, their expectations for 2019, and price movement as well as how they perceive the entry of new companies into the market, what they demand from the government and CEOs THOUGHTS Conference-Cairo 2018 what kind of new projects firms aim to carry out.
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Points of Discussion:
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-&nbsp; Difficulties and challenges during 2018, and the extent to which projected sales can be affected by new firms' emergence
- Have the sales of firms in North Coast been affected by offering New El Alamein Towers?
- Analytical assessment of the market in 2019, and if there is any projected rise in pricing
-&nbsp; Is the market witnessing screening some newly emerged companies, especially in the New Adminis-trative Capital?
- Is there a need for developing marketing mechanisms, given vast competition, and the more projects to be offered in 2019?
- Benchmarking of investment policies of participants

Eng. Ayman Ismail

Chairman & CEO of DMG - Mountain View

Eng Amgad Hassanein

Chief Project Officer at Capital Group Properties

Eng. Ahmed Mansour

CEO of Castle Development

Ahmed Bahaa Eldin

Managing Director of MB Engineering Company

Real Estate Sector in Competition and Vetting Year

As the government strives to make leaps in industrial growth and in internal and external trade over the next two years, these sectors are facing challenges such as rising production cost, price hike, and higher price of energy as well as lack of industrial land and lack of fully serviced-land required for creating orderly markets, commercial chains and logistics areas in governorates
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Points of Discussion:
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-Current status of local factories. Are they operating at full production capacity or not?
- Impact of reform measures such as pound floatation, and rising prices of water and energy (oil and power) on production cost and final consumer price
-Firms' approaches to deal with anticipated rise in energy price during 2019. Are the markets awaiting a bout of serious inflation?
- Has the new Industrial Licensing Act reduced bureaucratic red tape relating to issuing licenses which would last years?
- Has the private sector benefited from the industrial investing map, launched by the government last November, which includes 4,000 investment opportunities in 9 industrial sectors in 27 governorates?
- And is there a demand for it given the absence of incentives relating to the map?
- The government plans to increase annual exports by 10%. Is this achievable? Have exporters benefited from exchange rate liberalization decree?
- What are the challenges facing domestic trade growth at present? And availability of fully serviced-land in governorates to create commercial centers and chains
- Effect of high inflation upon volume of demand and its impact on the sales of commercial chains as well as approaches to deal with anticipated rise in commodity price

Hany Aman

Managing Director of Eastern Company

Karim Naggar

Chairman of Kayan Egypt for Trading & Investment

Hany Kesis

Chairman of Mintra - Misr for Industry & Trade

Hossam Farid Hassanein

Chairman of Allweiler - Farid Pumps

Dr. Walid Gamal El Din

Chairman of Modern Waterproofing Group

Industrial Development Impediments, and Actions to Boost Exporting

The Fifth CEOs Thoughts conference brings together the leaders of large corporations influencing the Egyptian economy from financial market, manufacturing, banking, real estate and trade sectors at the local and regional levels to convey their vision for business environment during 2019, and to review opportunities and challenges after the reform measures taken by the government over the past period.
With the participation of senior executives from 300 firms operating in 10 key sectors, the conference reveals the 5th annual report of confidence index of CEOs in the Egyptian economy, issued by the economic daily Al-Mal each year.
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"Business Views of 2019 Risks &amp; Opportunities"

The 5th CEOs THOUGHTS 2018