Shalakany is glad to note that Muhammad Ussama (Senior Partner) has participated in the one-day conference on ‘Digitalizing Trade and Expanding Supply Chain Finance in Egypt: The MLETR Opportunity’. The conference took place on the 25th of February in Cairo, Egypt, and was hosted by the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme, in collaboration with ICC DSI and ITFC. Muhammad spoke on two panels and addressed the current legal regulation in Egypt for negotiable instruments and the way forward to update the Egyptian legislative framework. He also touched on the current position, on the ground, with respect to e-signatures and e-evidence in general, and highlighted the positive steps that were taken in Egypt to facilitate a number of important steps towards digitalization and the intended facilitation of cross-border trade.
