Housing and Development Bank (HDB)

Overview

Housing and Development Bank (HDB) is Egyptian commercial bank + CASE: HDBK + Egyptian government Ministry of Housing + Egyptian state-aligned majority + Egyptian retail + institutional + foreign investors free float + Egypt's primary housing finance commercial bank + one of Egypt's largest mortgage commercial banks + founded Jun 30 1979 in Cairo Egypt as Egyptian state-aligned housing commercial bank [1, eg-cro].

History

Jun 30 1979 — Housing and Development Bank HDB founded in Cairo Egypt as Egyptian state-aligned housing commercial bank under Egyptian president Sadat-era Egyptian banking diversification + housing finance modernisation distinctive Egyptian housing banking heritage as Egypt's primary housing finance commercial bank.

2014 — HDB Mobile banking app launch.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Housing and Development Bank HDB (Egyptian commercial bank; CASE: HDBK).

Major shareholders: Egyptian government Ministry of Housing + Egyptian state-aligned majority + Egyptian retail + institutional + foreign investors free float.

Regulators: Central Bank of Egypt CBE.

Technical integration

HDB Mobile app (iOS + Android) + hdb-egy.com online + Housing and Development Bank branch network across Egypt + HDB Visa + Mastercard + Meeza Egyptian national card scheme; Meeza national card scheme + Meeza QR (Egyptian national QR payment scheme) + Egyptian Pound EGP domestic transfers.

Implementations & partners

Major Egyptian banking + payments competitors: [[nbe-egypt]] (National Bank of Egypt NBE; Egypt's largest commercial bank by assets) + [[cib-egypt]] (Commercial International Bank CIB; CASE: COMI) + [[banque-misr]] (Banque Misr) + [[qnb-alahli]] (QNB Al Ahli Bank Egypt) + [[aaib-egypt]] (Arab African International Bank AAIB) + [[alex-bank]] (AlexBank; Intesa Sanpaolo Italian parent ~80%+ controlling) + [[suez-canal-bank]] (Suez Canal Bank; CASE: CANA).

Regulators: Central Bank of Egypt CBE.

Status

Active, Egyptian commercial bank + CASE:HDBK + Egyptian government Ministry of Housing + Egyptian state-aligned majority + Egyptian retail + institutional + foreign investors free float + Egypt's primary housing finance commercial bank + one of Egypt's largest mortgage commercial banks + founded Jun 30 1979 in Cairo Egypt as Egyptian state-aligned housing commercial bank [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 HDB — official
• 2 HDB — Wikipedia
• eg-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/EG-egypt.md

Source

Biography extracted from housing-and-development-bank.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.