{"id":606696,"date":"2023-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/09\/20\/saudi-wealth-fund-to-up-its-stake-in-e-finance\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:00:00","slug":"saudi-wealth-fund-to-up-its-stake-in-e-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/09\/20\/saudi-wealth-fund-to-up-its-stake-in-e-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi wealth fund to up its stake in e-Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong> The Saudis are upping their stake in e-Finance: <\/strong> The Saudi Egyptian Investment Company (SEIC), the investment arm of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), is planning to increase its stake in state fintech player e-Finance to 28% from 25% currently, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3PLwLBk\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Asharq Business<\/a> reported yesterday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Refresher: <\/strong> The Saudi wealth fund <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/316415e5-ccc3-42ca-b442-80dd3b8b2e16\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired 25% of the company<\/a> last year for EGP 7.5 bn, becoming its single-largest shareholder and getting it two seats on the board. This was part of a wider USD 1.3 bn investment in state-held shares of EGX-listed companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> A gradual process: <\/strong> SEIC will continue purchasing shares until it reaches 28%, according to the news outlet. Yesterday it purchased a number of shares to increase its stake to 25.02%, it said in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/9\/1270.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">a bourse filing (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Now, they must tell us their plan for e-Finance: <\/strong> With SEIC\u2019s ownership now exceeding the 25% mark, it is obliged to disclose its investment plan in the fintech company, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> e-Finance to enter Saudi: <\/strong> The fintech player said in a statement in April that it has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/78511b41-9f15-463d-9892-2f552d962b89\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">inked a<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/78511b41-9f15-463d-9892-2f552d962b89\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">MoU<\/a> with Saudi Arabia\u2019s Thiqah Business Services to provide digital solutions and e-payments services in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, a partnership that marks e-Finance\u2019s entry into the Saudi market. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3MhzDCI\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Asharq Business<\/a> reported in May that the company is expected to launch its operations in 3Q 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Market reax: <\/strong>e-Finance shares closed 0.3% higher yesterday at EGP 17.85 per share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>e-Finance is looking to float 900k treasury shares<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606697,"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":[7363],"tags":[339,6681,72,183,7128,7345,219,2216,587],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-606696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-watch","tag-e-finance","tag-egypt-saudi-relations","tag-enterpriseam","tag-fintech","tag-ma-watch","tag-public-investment-fund","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-egyptian-investment-company","tag-state-privatization-program","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"1c267f91-82f0-44f9-9d15-b9cca13380d2","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/9\/1268.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Saudi-Egyptian Investment wants additional 3% stake in e-Finance","related_issue":[606689],"teaser":"e-Finance is looking to float 900k treasury shares","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/9\/.1e57dffa-23ef-4f92-904e-aa6dc8e8cedf.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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