The Hidden Human Crisis Inside Egypt's Banking Sector: How Prestige Turned into Psychological Collapse - and What Comes Next
PART I FROM PRESTIGE TO PRESSURE: HOW EGYPT’S BANKING DREAM COLLAPSED For decades, working in Egypt’s banking sector was not merely a career choice - it was a social elevation. A banking job meant more than a salary. It meant arrival . It meant that a family could finally exhale. Parents spoke of it with pride. Neighbors respected it. Suit jackets and polished shoes were not vanity; they were symbols of having made it into one of the country’s most stable, insulated professional classes. Banks were seen as fortresses of order in a volatile economy. While other sectors rose and fell with political shifts, inflation , and uncertainty, banking represented continuity. The banker was trusted, composed, protected. He - or increasingly, she - was assumed to be financially secure, psychologically steady, and institutionally backed. That image is now collapsing. Quietly. Relentlessly. And with far more human damage than most outside the sector realize. Behind the glass doors, compliance poster...
