From the lender's desk.

CBAM is in its definitive period from 1 January 2026. What Egyptian steel, aluminium, cement and fertiliser exporters must give EU buyers, and how to avoid default values.

How IFC EDGE certification works with a green building loan: the 20 per cent thresholds, preliminary and final certificates, and when a lender releases each tranche. Written by an IFC EDGE Expert.

The five things a lender reads in a solar project: yield on a P90 case, equipment and warranties, grid or net metering approval, payback and owner's contribution.

What an environmental and social management system (ESMS) must do for a leasing, microfinance or factoring company seeking a DFI credit line, under IFC Performance Standard 1 and EBRD ESR 9.

How a leasing, microfinance or factoring company calculates financed emissions on the PCAF standard, and why the data quality score from 1 to 5 matters as much as the total.

A practical way to prepare for ISSB IFRS S1 and S2: map each requirement to what you already report, an owner and a date. For banks, non-bank lenders and listed companies in Egypt and MENA.

Egypt's green lending is short of evidence a credit committee can sign more than it is short of money. The five-column tool that builds the file.

Every clause gets evidence, an owner and a status. The matrix, the scoring rule and three clauses run through it.

The January 2028 ESRMS requirement is a governance deadline before it is a risk deadline.

It removes four risks, not four points of rate.

A preliminary EDGE certificate proves the design. Only the final certificate proves the building.

A financed emissions total without its score from 1 to 5 is half a disclosure.

Pricing projects whose revenue depends on issuance.

Show me the criterion and the document.

A lender can screen the exposure in four fields.

Exclusion, categorisation, due diligence, covenant, monitoring.

Three numbers and five documents a lender learns by certifying first.

The SME is not buying the rate. It is buying fast answers.

No decision, no question.

The inventory comes first.