Egypt Financial Regulatory Authority approves 13 companies for non-bank financial activities and registrations

The Egypt Financial Regulatory Authority has approved 13 companies to undertake a range of non-bank financial activities through new incorporations, licence expansions, permissions tied to investment funds and additions to regulatory registers. The actions cover real estate investment fund activity, securities promotion and underwriting, consumer finance, financial consulting, financing for small and medium enterprises, factoring, mortgage finance, fund subscription services, metals trading with investment funds and receivables collection for non-bank finance firms. The approvals include new companies for real estate investment funds, securities underwriting and financial consulting, as well as a consumer finance company whose application had been filed before the authority's February 2026 decision to stop accepting new incorporation requests and preliminary approvals for companies seeking consumer finance licences. The authority also allowed an existing microfinance company to add financing for small and medium enterprises, added factoring and mortgage finance to two financial leasing companies, authorised two firms to receive subscriptions for investment fund certificates, registered a gold trader as an eligible counterparty for investment funds in metals transactions, and entered two firms in the register for collection of financial receivables for entities operating in non-bank financial activities.