Wednesday 24/Sep/2025 – 10:56 PM
The Central Bank continues to launch treasury bills, on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, with the aim of financing the state’s general budget needs and covering short -term liquidity deficit.
The Central Bank offers treasury bills tomorrow
The proposals come within the periodic schedule of local debt tools, on which the Central Bank depends as a tool for liquidity management in the market and assisting the government in providing short -term financing with a merit dates that vary between 91 days, 182 days, 273 days and 364 days.
In this context, the Central Bank, in its capacity as an agent of the Ministry of Finance, is preparing to launch wardrobe bills in the local currency tomorrow, Thursday, September 25, 2025, divided into two legs, for a period of 6 months and a year, with a total value of 85 billion pounds, to provide liquidity in the banking sector.
It includes the first offering of the bills worth 35 billion pounds, for a period of 6 months, which will be issued on September 30, 2025, to be entitled to March 31, 2026.
The second term is offered at a value of 50 billion pounds for a year issued on September 30, 2025, and the date and date of the amount of the amount will be made on September 29, 2026, so that the total amount scheduled to be offered tomorrow is 85 billion pounds.
Treasury bills are one of the short -term debt tools that local investors, especially banks and financial institutions, are accepted, due to the high returns compared to the low risks associated with them.
These proposals are subject to the public auction mechanism organized by the central bank, where the interest rate is determined according to the market mechanisms, based on the volume of demand and supply.
Earlier, official data issued by the Central Bank revealed that the average actual liquidity rate for the 5 largest banks operating in the Egyptian market increased to 38.1% in the local currency at the end of June 2025, compared to a rate of 34.3% during the same month last year, in an indicator that reflects the enhancement of the capabilities of those banks to fulfill their short -term obligations in the local currency.
The major banks raise their liquidity in the local currency to 38.1% in June 2025
On the other hand, actual liquidity in foreign currency recorded a remarkable decline to 73.7%, compared to 86.3% in June 2024, which is partially attributed to the expansion of financing projects in dollars or restructuring some of the financing portfolios.
The central bank warns of bank fraud attempts
While the Central Bank stressed the importance of being careful of bank fraud attempts to target bank customers through phone calls, or false messages on social media.
The Central confirmed that the banks operating in the Egyptian market do not require any personal or banking data from customers, whether they are related to bank accounts, payment cards, passwords, and verification codes, via phone or internet.
The bank called on all customers of the banking sector not to interact with any pages, electronic messages, or anonymous accounts that claim belonging to banks, especially those that require sharing sensitive data such as card numbers, secret codes, or one -time passwords (OTP).
