The United Bank and a Group of Institutions Sponsor Union of Arab Banks Conference 2025 

28/04/2025

Under the Auspices of The Central Bank of Egypt’s Governor

The United Bank and a Group of Institutions Sponsor Union of Arab Banks Conference 2025 

Ashraf El Kady: Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of The United Bank
•    The economic situation necessitates the innovation of joint financing mechanisms characterized by flexibility and keeping pace with the digital revolution. 
•    Partnership between the public and private sectors for sustainable financing is one of the most important regional development solutions. 
•    Developing Arab mechanisms and adopting the regional integration model to achieve sustainable economic development. 
•    Economic development requires huge and massive regional projects.
 
Cairo: April 28, 2025 

Under the auspices of The Central Bank of Egypt’s Governor, Hassan Abdalla, The United Bank announced its sponsorship of Union of Arab Banks Conference 2025, alongside a group of institutions. The annual conference is held in Cairo from April 28-29th.
 
Under the title: "Partnership between the Public and Private Sectors to Finance the Economy," the conference was participated by financial and banking leaders and delegations of representatives from the public and private sectors in a number of Arab countries. 

It aims to provide a platform to discover innovative partnership models that balance public interest and private sector profitability, as well as address the main challenges hindering the successful implementation of partnership projects and exchange knowledge between governments, financial institutions, and the private sector. It also addresses the efforts of Arab countries and their continuous endeavour to align their development priorities with global trends.
 
The conferences sessions witnessed intensive focus on integrating sustainability and inclusivity into public-private partnership strategies, as well as proposals to enhance regional cooperation and develop partnership frameworks aimed at promoting cross-border investments. This supports regional economic integration, especially in light of the current geopolitical and economic landscape, and paves the way for practical solutions that would bring about a positive transformation in the region. 

Commenting on The United Bank's participation, Ashraf El Kady, CEO and Managing Director, emphasized the importance of strengthening the partnership between the public and private sectors to open new horizons for development financing in the Arab and regional region. 

He added that Arab sustainable development issues are considered one of the main challenges in the region.  This requires developing joint Arab mechanisms and adopting the regional integration model, especially in light of the close link between the requirements of economic development and the need to implement huge and massive regional projects in many fields, particularly projects related to improving climatic conditions.

El Kady praised the efforts of the Egyptian state, Arab countries, and The Central Bank of Egypt, in coordination with The Union of Arab banks, to achieve the sustainable development goals through genuine development of human and scientific capacities.  This requires focusing efforts in the fields of health and education, and focusing on the transformation to a knowledge-based society and the development of scientific research and innovation fields. 

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