{"id":636934,"date":"2017-11-05T03:44:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T03:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/11\/05\/barclays-officially-becomes-attijariwafa-bank\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T03:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T03:44:20","slug":"barclays-officially-becomes-attijariwafa-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/11\/05\/barclays-officially-becomes-attijariwafa-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays officially becomes Attijariwafa Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fifty-five former Barclays outlets in Egypt were rebranded to Attijariwafa Bank Egypt as <\/strong><strong>of 3 November<\/strong>,the Moroccan lender <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2017\/11\/188.pdf\">announced in a statement (pdf)<\/a>. Attijariwafa had bought Barclays Egypt\u2019s operations last year in a USD 400-500 mn transaction. 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