AGENDA

9:30 – 10:00       Registration and Coffee

 

10:00 – 10:30     Welcome Remarks

Dr. Ola El Khawaga, Research and Awareness Director, Egyptian Banking Institute

Dr. Mona El Baradei, Executive Director, Egyptian Banking Institute

                                   

10:30- 11:00       Opening Remarks 

                              Mr. Gamal Negm, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Egypt

                                   

11:00 – 11:30     Introductory Speech 

Mr. Francis Malige - Director Financial Institutions – Mediterranean - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)As long as banks play a critical role in the transition towards a more sustainable economy, they are required to use indicators to report social and ecological impact which should also be used within the regulatory framework. Many measures have been discussed to encourage financial institutions to adopt more sustainable practices and many initiatives have been taken in various attempts to avert the crisis. During this session, we will focus on the introduction of the sustainable banking main principles, while highlighting different measurement approaches for banking sustainability implementation.

 

 

11:30 – 13:00     Session One:  Green Banking and Sustainable Lending Best Practices

 

Green Banking is a new way of conducting the banking business through multiple environmental-friendly practices. It includes combining operational improvements, technology and changing clients’ behaviors in the banking industry. Internally, banks should minimize any negative impact their activities may have on the environment through different actions such as reducing waste paper and plastic in offices, energy saving initiatives and developing online banking products and services. Moreover, sustainability policies are also extended to taking steps to protect the environment from others by applying strict lending practices considering the impact a potential project may have on the environment, refusing to finance businesses whose actions cause unacceptable harm to the environment and assisting bank’s clients along the difficult road towards more sustainable business practices. Sustainable lending practices lead us to another important concept which is “Green Lending”.

This session will highlight the major benefits, challenges of “Green Banking” and the best practices of “Green Lending”, with a special focus on the equator principles concept which are a voluntary set of standards for determining, assessing and managing social as well as environmental risk in project financing.

  

Chairperson: H.E. Dr. Nadia Makram Ebeid – Former Minister of State for Environmental Affairs and Executive Director- Centre for Environment and Development for Arab Region and Europe and Commercial International Bank Board Member

 

Speakers:

• Dr. Dalia Abdel Kader - Head of Marketing & Communications – Arab African International Bank (AAIB)

• Mr. Francis Malige - Director Financial Institutions – Mediterranean - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

• Ms. Saphira Surina Patel - Manager Operations Evaluation - Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

• Mr. Martin Dasek - Financing Specialist in the Financial Institutions Department – International Finance Corporation (IFC)

 

13:00 – 13:30     Coffee Break

 

13:30 - 15:00      Session Two:  Recent Developments on Inclusive Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR):

 

Sustainable banks are required to maintain a high degree of transparency and inclusiveness in governance and reporting. In this context, inclusiveness means an active relationship with a bank’s extended stakeholder community, and not only its shareholders or management. Transparency and effective communication at all levels of board and management are the essential pre-requisites for the sustained evolution of risk culture within an institution. Regarding Corporate Social Responsibility, a bank needs to manage the impact of its activities on society in two ways: first, by removing, or at least mitigating, any negative impacts it may have; second, by taking positive steps to help communities through its employment practices, fundraising, volunteering and charitable giving. This session will present the recent developments in Inclusive Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility domains.

 

Chairperson: Dr. Hani Sarie-Eldin - Founder and Chairman of Sarie-Eldin & Partners – Legal Advisors

 

Speakers:                                

• Ms. May Abul Naga – Head of Regulations Unit - Central Bank of Egypt

• Mr. Christian Strenger - Board Member - Deutsche Bank Group Entities

• Mr. Mohamed Sherif - Chief Financial Officer - Barclays Bank Egypt

• Ms. Careen Abb – Coordinator of United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEPFI) Banking Commission.

 

15:00 – 15:15   Coffee Break

 

15:15 – 16:30   Session Three: Building long term customer’s relations and role of Financial Inclusion:

Customer relationship is widely viewed as key factor in bank’s ability to build and sustain competitive advantage. Banks must give customers what they want fairly, responsibly and transparently. Additionally, the banking sector should support Financial Inclusion strategies aiming at assisting those who are excluded from the financial system to join and benefit from it, through providing financial products tailored to people’s needs and empowering them to use these products to build a better and more sustainable future. Thus, banks that effectively capture and act on customers’ needs increase their chances of building loyalty, grow market shares, maximize profits and strengthen their brands. This panel will clarify how to maintain strong relationship with bank’s customers and how to include marginalized categories in the financial system. 

 

Chairperson: Dr. Hala El Said – Dean – Faculty of Economics and Political Science

Speakers:

• Mr. Mounir El Zahed - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Banque Du Caire

• Mr. Johannes Majewski - Programme Coordinator -Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

• Mr. Hideki Matsunaga - chief representative – Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

• Mr. Daniele Scauso – Regional Platforms Manager- Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI)

 

16:30 – 17:30   Closing Session: Egyptian Banking Sector Vision towards Banking Sustainability

 

Chairperson: Dr. Mona El Baradei – Executive Director – Egyptian Banking Institute

Speakers:

• Mr. Mounir El Zahed - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer – Banque Du Caire

• Mr. Mohamed Ozalp – Managing Director and Executive Officer – Blom Bank of Egypt

• Mr. Mohamed Ashmawy – Chairman and Managing Director– the United Bank

• Mr. Mohamed El Etrebi – Managing Director – Egyptian Gulf Bank

• Mr. Mohamed Ismail - Chairman – Export Development Bank of Egypt

 

 

17:30                  Lunch