CBE trains over 100 bankers from 20 African countries

CAIRO - 19 July 2019: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has carried out a training program for more than 100 bankers from 20 African countries under President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s directives to boost cooperation with African countries.

The bank detailed in a statement released on Thursday that the training program also aims to enhance Cairo’s economic cooperation with the African countries under Egypt’s current chairmanship of the African Union and the CBE’s presidency of the Association of African Central Banks (AACB).

The four-day program, organized on July 15-18, included trainees from the central and commercial banks and banking institutions of Zambia, Liberia, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Sudan, Guinea, Malawi, the Gambia, Ghana, Tunisia, Mauritania, Mauritius, among others.

The training focused on the use of MANSA, a repository platform which provides a single source of information and primary data required for the conduct of customer due diligence on African entities; financial institutions, corporates and SMEs. (MENA)