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بالتعاون مع بنك الإسكندرية، أطلقت جمعية الفكر العمراني النسخة العاشرة من معسكر الخليفة الصيفي ضمن مبادرة الأثر لنا، شارك أكثر من 100 طفل في برنامج مليء بالأنشطة لتعزيز ارتباطهم بثقافتهم وتراثهم. رقم التسجيل الضريبي: 665-029-200

Alexbank was part of an important initiative held under the extensive and inspiring reach of the Egyptian Banking Institute of knowledge and innovation, encompassing Egyptian banks and going beyond to include other financial institutions across Africa. In collaboration with ALEXBANK’s strategic partner the Egyptian Banking Institute; The Central Bank of Egypt’s official training arm for developing the human capital of the banking ecosystem and united by common goals and values, ALEXBANK received a visit on Monday, the 26th of August as part of the Human Resources Study Tour of esteemed fellow HR senior professionals from the Central Banks of South Sudan, Rwanda, & Somalia. The seamless coordination between ALEXBANK and The EBI had greatly contributed to the success of this visit and has left a lasting impression on our esteemed guests. The valuable experience provided to the delegation was not only informative, but also reflective of Alexbank commitment to excellence. Alexbank has been chosen by the EBI for this visit due to its strong standing in innovation and leadership within Egypt’s banking sector. During the said Visit to Alexbank, we had the opportunity to present the State of the Art practices and initiatives undertaken by Alexbank as part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group. Recognizing the importance of talent, the delegation was taken through by the various Human Resources function heads in Alexbank on the diverse HR initiatives implemented at ALEXBANK and the various strategies related to people and process, from Remuneration pillars and concepts, to equitable and fair performance management systems, to dynamic learning and development programs to comprehensive employer branding focused on employee health and wellbeing such as “BEWELL”and commitment to ESG HR governance. The highlight of the day was the meeting with Mr. Ramy Taha, Deputy CEO of Retail, MSMEs and Digital Banking who provided great insights into the bank's current and future initiatives, the role of the Central Bank of Egypt and how Egyptian banking industry is being revolutionized talking some key initiatives such as Instant Payment Network(IPN) and the different Intesa Sanpaolo’s as well ALEXBANK's digital innovation efforts. This in addition to a full walkthrough from Ms. Farida el Kattan on ALEXBANK's impactful corporate social responsibility programs, which are making a real difference in supporting marginalized individuals and the broader Egyptian community and initiatives such as Ebdaa mn Masr and Ghalia. The Egyptian Banking institute inclusive approach significantly amplifies the visibility and positioning of our beloved country, Egypt, as a destination of learning and innovation to support all our brothers and sisters in the African Continent. Our common goal is a better place for Africa within the global financial community, where we are proud that the EBI remains a leader in banking education and collaboration across the African continent. #EBI #ALEXBANK

Our Virtual Summer Internship Program for University students for the year 2024 LEAP by ALEXBANK has ended yesterday with a great celebration by the interns. An important part of the journey of these young talents was the LEAP Project Bootcamp 2024 in which 300 students split into 13 teams . The graduating task for the Virtual Summer Internship Program for University Students 2024 Project is titled “Digital Banking Innovations” through the use of Generative AI. Our winning teams are 𝐈𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫, 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐛𝐥𝐲 & 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐧, according to the judging committee. All the participants of the 13 teams used everything taught within the internship and emphasized the innovative feature. LEAP 2024’s final project aimed to give students a learning experience by contributing with their innovation and vision to real banking products and services whether new or existing, or the bank’s Fintech application. This is through developing solutions using AI. The Project Component was a parallel path in our internship to the important knowledge sharing sessions. The program signifies an aim to share the best of the banking industry’s knowledge and give back to the Egyptian Student Community. This was made possible through ALEXBANK’s very own Knowledge Sharing Sessions by ALEXBANK Managers, who volunteered from different educational backgrounds to share their valuable knowledge to our enthusiastic learners. We are proud of our winning teams and of every intern throughout the whole program We thank you for joining LEAP 2024 Virtual Student Summer Internship Program and our mentors. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

Today marks the end of LEAP 2024, ALEXBANK Virtual Student Summer Internship Program with its unique theme "Generative AI and the New Gen Legacy" in collaboration with our Strategic Partner, the Egyptian Banking Institute, and reputable learning and development entities. ALEXBANK Managers and LEAP by ALEXBANK Alumni joined hands to make a difference to Egyptian Student Community - powered by our mutually shared beliefs and institutional values through endorsing Diversity & Inclusion. After the four remaining teams completed presenting their projects, LEAP Project Bootcamp for 2024 came to an end. Out of 13 teams, we had 3 winners. However, we are proud of each and every intern throughout the whole program. The program started with an aim to share the best of the banking industry’s knowledge by ALEXBANK’s Knowledge Sharing Sessions given by the bank’s very own managerial population from different educational backgrounds, teaching their knowledge jest to our enthusiastic learners. Our interns were handpicked out of 9000 applicants, knowing how powerful LEAP by ALEXBANK is! ALEXBANK Summer Internship program will continue to be a valuable moment of mental and character growth to future LEAP- alumni, who will later on shape the community we live in! With renewed determination and heightened enthusiasm, our students are now more than every fueled to reach new heights of success and excel in their yet-to-come respective fields. To be in ALEXBANK is to be within a family; we ended LEAP by ALEXBANK 2024 by reminiscing on all the memories we had together, the whole journey. Congrats to our 3 winning teams and to all our LEAPers, success partners, and ALEXBANK mentors! Remember that Innovation is a state of mind, and a life decision, sustaining on the urge to grow and pay forward your knowledge. If there is one message on A.I. through this program, it is that the power behind the A.I. is the determined and knowledgeable human being who wants to make a difference in this world. Stay tuned for our tribute tomorrow to the winning teams! 

The latest about our Student Summer Internship Virtual Program LEAP by ALEXBANK is that 13 groups of students from all over the governorates with different majors and learning capabilities united to compete in LEAP Project Bootcamp 2024 - as the graduating task for the Virtual Summer Internship Program for University Students. 2024 Project is titled “Digital Banking Innovations” through the use of Generative AI. This year’s project aims to give students a real-world experience through giving them the opportunity to contribute to real-world projects and develop solutions using state-of-the-art technologies. This will be executed through focusing on enhancing ALEXBANK’s products and services, whether new or existing, or the bank’s Fintech application. Throughout the duration of the third week of this year’s internship, LEAPers had a 2-hour orientation session in the morning, which was followed by working on the actual project. Every day, they delivered a milestone, and it is important for students to use AI for some parts only - to execute what was discussed in earlier sessions that AI is here to enhance and automate, but there ought to be the human and ethical aspect to govern the use of AI. The project itself is divided into 7 intricate milestones: project criteria & orientation, analysis, indentation, prototype, customer-related, process testing and marketing. During these phases, ALEXBANK’s interns will a firsthand understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and user requirements. This is in addition to conducting a research phase to gain insight, collaborating within brainstorming sessions and ideation workshops in order to refine their ideas into actionable solutions. After utilizing cutting-edge technologies and AI tools to develop prototypes that demonstrate the proposed enhancements, they will identify their target audience, based on the product or service they chose and what they aim to enhance, whilst testing their modified process as they go along. Furthermore, finalizing their project by highlighting the potential impact of their enhanced product, Fintech application or branch experience. We are very proud of all our interns, their dedication throughout the program and their execution of everything they have learnt during the internship within their final projects. Stay tuned tomorrow for the Program Finale!

ضمن مبادرة الشمول المالي للمزارع تحت رعاية البنك المركزي المصري في الفترة من 1 سبتمبر حتى 15 سبتمبر 2024، استمتع بعروض المبادرة من بنك الإسكندرية مع حساب توفير "ابدأ" واحصل على المزايا الآتية: فتح الحساب بالبطاقة فقط من غير حد أدنى لفتح الحساب من غير مصاريف فتح وتشغيل حساب عائد يصل إلى 14% يصرف شهرياً للمزيد زور: https://lnkd.in/dH7HcKP6 تطبق الشروط والأحكام رقم التسجيل الضريبي: 665-029-200

Today witnessed the closing Knowledge Sharing Session of Alexbank’s virtual Summer Internship Program LEAP by Alexbank. Mariam El Gammal, Alexbank’s Head of Human Resources & Organization took the LEAPers through her experience about “Generative A.I & HR Practices”. In her talk, Mariam highlighted the “People First” philosophy through the statement that A.I & technology interventions are in her opinion strongly submissive to a passionate & purposeful human determination, & that the best way to harness the powers of A.I is understanding one’s character &one’s purpose to unleash the strengths within. She disclosed to the LEAPers that, being Neuro Divergent herself, she knows the powers of a distracted yet creative youth and she knew first hand that there is power and uniquity in our differences, that for sure create for us unique contribution. This entails that the character of an HR professionals should harbor a passion for helping People & creating a better tomorrow for our communities and globe.   LEAPers learnt of many A.I tools that would help them understand their character & working style. Mariam views HR as the most important decision support function in any organization, even on Countries level & the key to the progress of the organization is an HR that goes the extra mile, offers help, is a safe place for Inclusivity & Understanding & harmony between what's best for the People & the Business. This in addition to A.I in the full life cycle of the HR practice includes tools that filter CVs, understand personality traits, chatbots in different HR functions, elimination of paperwork & manuality, A.I driven learning paths, predicting employees’ wellbeing & proposing enhancements based on data. Learning & Employee Engagement being among her most favorite Organizational Culture drivers, Mariam took LEAPers through the available banking Learning courses that can help them pass the entry tests for the Egyptian banking sector, also with the power of the candidate’s driven, purposeful ethical young character.   As per ALEXBANK’s Head of HR, employers do not necessarily seek those with A+ grades, but those who are confident, open to experiences, those aware of their life purpose & showing that in an interview, those who show acceptance of the Self & the Other in addition to the ability to accept pressures of first time learning during the job, resilience, presentability, accountability & flexibility. She pointed out that the most important aspect that is tested in any new hire in the HR is the HR ethical fabric, as it is a job that could be subject to many conditions where the ethical fabric can be tested. She highlighted that candidates open to experiences in ALEXBANK Outsourced troops can find their way faster into ALEXBANK as the bank has a strong Outsourced hiring Excellence program with a priority for our agents showing excellence, high work ethic.   Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Project Bootcamp to know more about LEAPers' final projects!

بمناسبة العودة إلى المدارس.. دلوقتي تقدر تقسط كل مشترياتك بدون فوائد حتى 36 شهر وهتدفع أول قسط بعد شهرين عند استخدام بطاقات بنك الإسكندرية الائتمانية. لطلب التقسيط برجاء الاتصال على 19033 العرض ساري حتى 30 سبتمبر 2024. للمزيد زور https://lnkd.in/gMEzNCF7 تطبق الشروط والأحكام رقم التسجيل الضريبي: 665-029-200

Today, 2024 LEAPers had yet another Knowledge Sharing Session within the Student Summer Internship Program on the Transformative Power of AI (Artificial Intelligence) with Dr. Hazem Shatila, Owner & CEO of Markov Co. and an International Consultant, with Dr. Mohamed El Guindy, Digital Advisor to the Public Prosecution Office, Cybersecurity Expert, Cybercrime Investigation Expert and TV Presenter. Most business nowadays use AI to transform fields; AI is coming to help partners transform departments in their organizations - AI Simulating the human mind, mimicking human behavior. Hazem discussed many topics that include branches of AI, machine learning and its 2 types, AI lifecycle, transformative power of Generative AI, foundation models and LLM (how Generative AI is built), transformers and attention mechanism: the starting plot of ChatGBT, how LLM works, challenges within Generative AI, use cases in banking, and ChatGBT versus GANs. Hazem also mentioned how progress is compared to human intelligence, and how the human mind works. AI started in the 50s with the simple question of can non-humans have minds? Later, it developed to the concept of AI being the science of making computers do things that require intelligence done by humans. Followed by a discussion of the differentiating characteristics between being rational and intelligent, LLMs and probability to human-like responses as an outcome based on probability of predictions, the transitional development of GBT to ChatGBT then later to a conversative AI. After talking about traditional way of prediction versus machine learning models, alongside Nano-Financing and Micro-Financing based on Credit Scoring Model, Mohamed joined Hazem to further discuss the cybercrime situation in the Middle East - cybercrime independently having its own characteristics in any region. Mentioning the key reasons that will increase cybercrime in the Middle East, which are the state of ICT infrastructure in the region, growth of user base, poor security awareness programs, lack of training (for law enforcement, judiciary system, civil society), off-the-shelf systems with solutions, financial problems that include unemployment, instability, corruption, political problems, and terrorism. Ending the session with the multiple layers of targeting cyberattacks, the role pf personas and propaganda in cyberspace, types of malicious software within financial institutions versus the insider threats, as well as phishing attacks in banking, social engineering, and Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and NFTs (a sort of a crypto asset, most commonly used in money laundering) in cyberspace with the role of banking through the use of KYCs (Know Your Customer). With only one more ALEXBANK Managerial Knowledge Sharing Session to go, we are both proud and excited to see our interns shine in their delivery of the final project next week! Stay tuned for more!

On the nineth day of LEAP by ALEXBANK, the Student Virtual Summer Internship Program, our learning enthusiasts had, among their learning sessions, two powerful Knowledge Sharing Sessions with Alaa Lasheen Head of Fintech (Financial Technology) Engagement on Fintech Technology and its Impact on the Banking Sector, alongside Mohammed El-Prince Emary, Head of Security Operation Centre, on Cyber Attacks and Central Bank of Egypt’s Cyber Regulations. ALEXBANK's Head of Fintech Engagement walked the students through the definition and meaning of Fintech, while giving them a Fintech overview in relation to Digital Banking and the Marketing Division. Financial Technology offers its users new technologies that seek to improve and automate its delivery through the use of financial services. Alaa additionally mentioned E-wallets, referencing ALEXBANK’s Ma7fazty, as well as explaining how they are managed in different countries, and how countries are currently introducing new technologies and services around the world using instructive innovation – specifying Fintech’s general objectives being aiming for financial inclusion, developing new financial markets, fostering stability of the financial system, and robustifying financial and data infrastructure – targeting operational efficiency and making the overall customer experience better. Finally ending the session with the difference between Financial Inclusion and Digital Inclusion, whilst giving examples of innovation opportunities in the field of Fintech in Egypt. During the second session, ALEXBANK’s Head of Security Operation Centre explained the domain of the Security Operation Centre, as a dedicated team that monitors and defends an institution’s digital assets from cyber threats, using tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and threat Intelligence. He followed this by providing an explanation of why the world nowadays is keen on cybersecurity in order to protect personal information, identify theft and prevent ransomware. Attacks are usually aimed at accessing, changing, or destroying sensitive information for the purpose of extorting money, or interrupting normal business processes. Accordingly, the best protective ways to conquer and diminish cybersecurity threats are enabling 2-factor authentication, using strong passwords, and updating software regularly, while dealing with the different types of cyberattacks that include phishing attacks, Wi-Fi eavesdropping, social engineering, and malware. Ending the session with explaining to our interns how to get involved in cybersecurity through learning, practicing, apprenticing, and networking. Another day where new ALEXBANK managers continue to give back to our Egyptian Student Community through LEAP’s Knowledge Sharing Sessions. Stay tuned for more daily updates on our LEAPers’ progress!