Cika jumla mai zuwa:
Rikicin Canal na Suez a shekarar 1956, gwamnatin Masar ta mallaki dukkan rassa biyar a kasar. Gwamnatin Masar ta kafa Bankin Al-Goumhourieh don karɓar ayyukan Masar na Bankin Ionian da Bankin Ottoman bayan Yaƙin Canal na Suez. A cikin 1958, Bankin ya faɗaɗa hanyar sadarwarsa zuwa ƙasashen Gabashin Afirka kamar Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania da Rhodesia (yanzu Zimbabwe) don biyan buƙatun masu hannun jarinsa.