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Egypt may witness 5-6 new new EGX listings during 2021, Farid

Egypt could be  witnessing  five or six new listings on its stocks market during 2021, which may pave the way for the return of institutional investors into the market, EGX Chairman Mohamed Farid tells Al Arabiya.

Farid didn’t provide any further details on the timelines of the potential listings, or whether the anticipated IPOs include any companies from the stalled state privatization program.

A handful of companies that were planning to IPO in 2020 either postponed or outright killed their plans.

For example, Banque du Caire’s hotly anticipated IPO was postponed to 2021 as the state privatization program was pushed amid the covid-induced market selloff last yea