National Bank of Egypt

The National Bank of Egypt was established in 1898 and is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. During the 1950s, it assumed the central bank's duties and after its nationalization in the 1960s, it acted as a pure commercial bank besides carrying out the functions of the central bank in the areas where the latter had no branches. Since the mid-1960s, it has been in charge of issuing and managing investment certificates on behalf of the government. It has a network of 615 branches, offices and banking units nationwide serving nearly 17.8 million customers. Additionally, the bank maintains international presence in the UK, Sudan, USA and China, as well as a correspondent bank network around the globe.