Friday 26/December/2025 – 06:30 AM
The price of the Kuwaiti dinar against the Egyptian pound witnessed a noticeable discrepancy in the banking market during today’s transactions, Friday, December 26, 2025, coinciding with the weekly bank holiday.
Kuwait Finance House Bank topped the best list Prices offered to buy currency from the public, Recording 155.61 pounds for purchase and 155.99 pounds for sale, while selling prices in the major government banks (Al-Ahly, Misr, and Cairo) stabilized at a unified level of 155.24 pounds.
The price of the Kuwaiti dinar against the Egyptian pound
This stability in selling prices reflects the ability of the banking system to control the exchange rate of the most expensive currency in the world and provide it to customers through official channels at close prices.
At the level of private and foreign banks, the Arab International Bank and HSBC recorded a purchase price of 154.85 pounds and 154.81 pounds, respectively, with the selling price stable at 155.24 pounds. While the Arab International Banking Company (SAIB) and the Commercial International Bank (CIB) offered the dinar at a selling level of 155.27 pounds. These price movements come in light of the banks’ desire to maintain their collections of major Arab currencies by the end of 2025, especially with the increasing movement of financial transfers during the annual holiday seasons.
A price gap in purchase offers from some banks
Follow-up data revealed a clear price gap in the levels of purchases of the Kuwaiti dinar in some banks. The purchasing price at the “Bank of Alexandria” and the “Export Development Bank” fell to levels below 150 pounds, recording 149.88 pounds and 149.67 pounds, respectively, despite the stability of their selling prices above the level of 155 pounds. Al Ahli of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank also recorded purchase levels ranging between 150.70 and 151.02 pounds, which highlights the variation in pricing policies based on the size of the cash needs of each banking institution at the end of the year’s trading.
In a related context, the exchange rate at the Arab African International Bank stabilized at 152.53 pounds for purchase and 155.93 pounds for sale, ranking among the banks with the highest selling prices after Kuwait Finance House.
Economists believe that this diversity in prices gives dealers an opportunity to differentiate between banks when changing the currency, stressing that the stability of the Egyptian banking system in the face of international fluctuations, especially in light of the global economic policies led by US President Donald Trump, has directly contributed to the provision of Arab currencies and the reduction of the parallel market, ensuring the sustainability of official cash flows.
