{"id":586369,"date":"2023-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/10\/alexbank-secures-usd-15-mn-from-eib-for-green-on-lending\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"alexbank-secures-usd-15-mn-from-eib-for-green-on-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/05\/10\/alexbank-secures-usd-15-mn-from-eib-for-green-on-lending\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexbank secures USD 15 mn from EIB for green on-lending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide USD 15 mn to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Alexbank for on-lending to green projects<\/span><span>, the two sides said in a joint <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/537.pdf\" style=\"\">release (pdf)<\/a><\/span><span> yesterday. The money is being made available through the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebrdgeff.com\/egypt\/\" style=\"\">Green Economy Financing Facility<\/a><\/span><span> (GEFF), and will target businesses working on renewable energy and efficiency projects, it said. The EIB signed off on the financing in December, according to the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eib.org\/en\/projects\/pipelines\/all\/20140704\" style=\"\">EIB\u2019s website<\/a><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">GEFF?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> Led by the EBRD in partnership with the EIB and the French Development Agency, the initiative aims to help small, private-sector businesses to help them invest in energy-efficiency projects and green technologies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Egyptian banks have so far received more than EUR <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">465 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">mn from GEFF<\/span><span>, which has worked with a number of local lenders \u2014 including the National Bank of Egypt, QNB Alahli, Alexbank and Arab African International Bank \u2014 to <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/cd57da61-302d-428d-beab-253b1039c71a\" style=\"\">channel finance to green projects<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> and SMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The loan was signed on the sidelines of the Swedish embassy and EU\u2019s electricity interconnectivity event yesterday, <\/span><span>according to a <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/559.pdf\" style=\"\">joint<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/559.pdf\" style=\"\">press<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/559.pdf\" style=\"\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/559.pdf\" style=\"\">release<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/559.pdf\" style=\"\">(pdf)<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. Panels at the event discussed how Europe could help finance the green transition here, and how in turn the renewable energy generated in Egypt could make its way to Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">SOUND SMART- <\/span><span>There are as many as five proposed interconnector projects that would link our electricity grid to mainland Europe. Read about them all <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/4300b9a7-cef7-4538-a721-679ff6de206e\" style=\"\">here<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\">IN OTHER GREEN NEWS-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Gov\u2019t, UN launch new sustainable development framework: <\/span><span style=\"\">The Madbouly <\/span><span>government and the UN yesterday <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/posts\/pfbid0rJba5LRQCbPMVFCTKnXwhjcmYxqDhZEBVAx95gQeUjnSFyf6aBaFXf7w3qb9H5TKl\" style=\"\">launched<\/a><\/span><span> the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/541.pdf\" style=\"\">UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2027 (pdf)<\/a><\/span><span> at an event in Cairo, cabinet said in <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EgyptianCabinet\/posts\/pfbid0rJba5LRQCbPMVFCTKnXwhjcmYxqDhZEBVAx95gQeUjnSFyf6aBaFXf7w3qb9H5TKl\" style=\"\">a statement<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. The five targets of the four-year framework include strengthening welfare and public services, improving women\u2019s rights, building climate resilience and reducing the informal economy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding comes as part of the Green Economy Financing Facility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7274],"tags":[1139,204,88,101,571,72,760],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-586369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debt-watch","tag-alexbank","tag-banking","tag-debt-watch","tag-development-finance","tag-ebrd","tag-enterpriseam","tag-european-investment-bank","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b4f5e99a-30c9-4392-a91c-f7ece153b689","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/5\/539.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"EIB lends Alexbank USD 15 mn in green funding","related_issue":[586359],"teaser":"The funding comes as part of the Green Economy Financing Facility","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/5\/.b9e8c035-9b77-4efb-b7a3-a990b2f7f19e.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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