{"id":681211,"date":"2026-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/?p=681211"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:26:55","slug":"the-cbe-is-taking-a-tougher-stance-on-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/01\/14\/the-cbe-is-taking-a-tougher-stance-on-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The CBE is taking a tougher stance on regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Our friends at <\/strong><strong>HSBC Egypt disclosed last summer that they had paid a fine imposed by <\/strong><strong>the Central Bank of Egypt <\/strong><strong>(CBE)<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> HSBC Egypt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/681063.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">financials for 1H 2025 (pdf)<\/a> show a charge of a little under EGP 1.39 bn. Asked for comment yesterday, a spokesperson told us, \u201cWe have already made significant progress in implementing the agreed corrective actions to ensure our practices meet the expectations of the Central Bank of Egypt.\u201d The fine has gotten ink in the media in the past couple of days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>The fine underscores that the central bank is shifting its approach to regulation<\/strong>, a source with first-hand knowledge of the CBE\u2019s thinking tells us. Until recently, the CBE typically deployed smaller fines as it looked to \u201ccorrect practices throughout the industry\u201d in a more low-key way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>Today, the regulator is being more muscular in imposing monetary penalties.<\/strong> Industry insiders have previously told us the CBE is stepping up its scrutiny of credit governance as it prepares for banks to go back to lending. Interest rates are on a declining path and could hit a point in 2025 when companies start to test the waters with borrowing to fund capex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>The central bank imposed an <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/10\/30\/cbe-reportedly-fines-fab-misr-and-other-banks-over-loan-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EGP 1 bn fine<\/a><\/strong><strong> on <\/strong><strong>FAB<\/strong><strong> Misr last fall<\/strong><strong> and ordered the <\/strong><strong>transfer of a senior credit officer.<\/strong> NBK Egypt was fined a lesser amount in the same incident in which the CBE found that three banks had inappropriately extended credit to financial services giant Beltone Holding. Bankers we spoke with at the time said the fine was calculated to send a message to the industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>The fine HSBC Egypt paid was unrelated<\/strong> and centered on disagreements over how the bank was reporting its loan portfolio. No depositor or shareholder money was at risk, we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0;margin: 0;line-height: 1.15;text-align: left\"><strong>(** Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links <\/strong>to our background as well as external sources.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, HSBC paid the CBE a EGP 1.4 bn fine for a hodgepodge of findings after an audit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","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":[7350],"tags":[204,72,490],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-681211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-banking","tag-enterpriseam","tag-hsbc","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"6d95675b-8d34-4370-a91d-0e16ec036f2f","order":"6","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2026\/1\/437.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"The Central Bank of Egypt is taking a tougher stance on regulation","related_issue":[681201],"teaser":"Last summer, HSBC paid the CBE a EGP 1.4 bn fine for a hodgepodge of findings after an audit","photo_link":"","related_sponsor":"","voice_url":"","en_translation_ref_id":"","section_story_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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