Commercial Banking

Barclays Bank Egypt Corporate & Investment Banking offers comprehensive banking services for more than 600 corporate clients in Egypt, covering all types of Corporate clients operating in diversified economic sectors. We extend the full range of standard corporate products and services in additionto tailored solutions for large coroporate clients.

Standard Products & Services:

Account services in all currencies: Corporate Current Account, Call Accounts, Fixed Term Deposit Account, and Certificate of Deposit

Cash management: Account Management, Transaction Management, Check Collection Services from client' locations and providing full reconciliation support, BUlk Cash collection from clients' locations, and Corporate Payroll

Trade Services: Import Services (Letters of Credits / Bills for Collection Avalization), Export Services and Guarantees Services (Tender Bonds, Performance Bonds and Advance Payment Guarantees).

Loans and Finances: Overdrafts, Short Term Loans, Medium Term Financing, Checks Discounting, Distributor Finance scheme and Discounting Export Documents.

Treasury:
Barclays Bank Egypt's Treasury is made up of a team of professionals dedicated to providing the best levels of service to our corporate, retail and institutional clients. With an extensive branch network worldwide, deep knowledge of local markets, and the ability to leverage the product capabilities of our international operations, we are able to provide solutions for all our clients’ financial requirements.

Amongst our products/services offerings:
Foreign Exchange
- Spot foreign exchange transactions against Egyptian Pounds
- Spot foreign currency crosses
- Foreign currency forwards and swaps against Egyptian Pounds
- Currency forwards and swaps

Risk Advisory

Tailor-made market risk management solutions, utilizing financial derivatives, designed to manage:
- Foreign Exchange Risk
- Interest Rates Risk
- Commodity Risk

Yield Enhancement
Products designed to give investors an enhanced return over plain vanilla deposits
- Dual Currency Deposits
- Market-linked Deposits
- Structured Notes

Governmental Debt Securities - GDS
We are able to trade debt securities on behalf of our corporate, institutional and retail clients
- Certificates of deposits
- Treasury Bills
- Treasury Notes

Asset & Liability Management- ALM
Liquidity management strategies
Research
Client access to world-class economic research from Barclays Capital

Merchant Banking: “Debt Capital Markets” , comprising Bond Issuance, Syndicated Loans, Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Structured Trade Finance, Structured Trade Finance, Debt Restructuring Advisory.

“Corporate Finance”, encompassing Private Placements, Initial Public Offerings,ADR / GDR Listing, Valuation Advisory , Buy Side Advisory, Sell Side Advisory, Asset Disposal Programs and Divestitures, Management Buy Outs and Leveraged Buy Outs.

Structured Products: Bond Issuances, Syndicated Loans, Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Structured Trade Finance, and Debt Advisory.

Investment Banking

The role of Barclays investment bank is to aid clients in maximizing their shareholder value. Our investment bank is a client driven association tailoring our expertise and product offerings to best meet and accomplish the most stretched and demanding needs our clients may have. Barclays investment bank, especially in today’s diverse and competitive market is constantly evolving and coming up with a range of complex solutions.

Barclays Investment Banking division aims at offering our respective clients in Egypt an extensive array of services. These services range from debt capital market services to corporate finance services.

We bring specific industry international, regional and product expertise to each client, as well as devise and execute the most innovative, customized answers to the most challenging issues in the marketplace. The Debt Capital Market services include syndicated loans, bond issuance, acquisition finance, project finance, structured trade finance and debt restructuring advisory.

As for the Corporate Finance services, they comprise of valuation Advisory, buy side advisory, asset disposal programs and divestitures, management and leveraged buyouts.

Barclays’ Investment banking function objectives is to create value by, developing innovative financing structures, providing industry-specific knowledge, developing market knowledge that adds value to our clients’ capital-raising ability and creating entirely new strategies to pioneer new markets.

Debt Capital Market Services:
- Syndicated loans: A consortium between several banks to provide large amounts of funds for a borrower.
- Bond issuance: A debt security, through which the investor loans money to an entity (company or government) that, borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a specified interest rate.
- Acquisition Finance: Arrangement of funding deal to specifically finance the purchase of an asset. The funds are usually collateralized by the assets of the target company. Funding option is governed by the existing capital structure of the target company & its debt repayment capacity.
- Project Finance: A loan structure that relies primarily on the project’s cash flow for repayment rather than sponsors’ support, with the project’s assets, rights, and interest held as collateral. It’s catered for financing long term infrastructure industrial projects and public services based on a non recourse or limited recourse finance structure.
- Structured trade Finance: Specialized medium to long term finance for cross border trade to meet both the needs of exporters and importers. Usually Investment bank works together with one or more Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) to provide a tailored trade finance solution.
- Debt restructuring advisory: A method whereby companies with outstanding debt obligations alter the terms of the
debt agreement in order to achieve some advantage. Companies use debt restructuring to avoid default on the existing debt or to take advantage of an interest rate decrease. A company restructures its debt by either exchanging existing debt with new debt or by altering the terms and provisions of the existing debt.

Corporate Finance Services:

- Valuation advisory: The process of determining the current worth of an asset or a group of assets (a company). 
- Asset disposal programs and divestures: Assisting in identifying and carving out of none performing/ non core assets to enhance a company’s value. Usually provide pre and post divesture scenarios to justify asset disposal.
- Management buyouts: The managers and/or the executives of a company purchase a controlling stake in the company. Usually the management will buyout all shareholders and takes the company private. 
- Leveraged buyouts: A strategy involving the acquisition of a company using borrowed money. The acquiring company uses its own assets as collateral in hopes that the future cash flows will cover the loan payments