SMEP Market :

It provides an advanced electronic platform for trading and exchanging commodities in compliance with the principles of Islamic Sharia. It also provides an integrated framework for reshaping commodity trade between companies in Egypt through:

💱 Sharia-compliant trading with instant settlement The first marketplace to offer real-time Sharia-compliant commodity trading through integrated digital payment solutions.

📈 Exclusive and flexible Islamic investment tools Offers unique Islamic investment opportunities not available on any other trading platform, specifically designed for local and international investors.

🔗 Real Commodity Tokenization Each commodity is digitally tagged and linked to its specific owner, ensuring transparent ownership rights and complying with Sharia principles.

🛡️ Sharia-compliant Takaful Insurance Provides protection against potential damage during storage, handling, and transportation, in compliance with Islamic principles.

🔄 Reduced Intermediation in B2B Trade Directly connects producers, manufacturers, and buyers, eliminating unnecessary intermediaries and reducing costs.

📊 Certified Quality and Specifications Each product carries a digital file containing the required specifications and quality assessment criteria for each product, certified by the market, ensuring compliance with agreed-upon quality standards.

📦 Mandatory Secure Storage Mandatory storage ensures product availability, compliance with specifications, and on-time delivery.

🌍 Custom International Manufacturing Orders The platform fulfills foreign production orders executed by Egyptian producers, strengthening the local industry.

✈️ Global Access for Investors and Integrated Logistics Services The goods offered on the market are available to foreign investors with comprehensive services, including shipping and customs clearance for customers worldwide.(shipping and customs clearance - Currently not available - will be later)

📤 Macroeconomic Impact By promoting exports, the market contributes to achieving Egypt's vision for targeted export plans, creating job opportunities, and generating foreign currency inflows, thus strengthening the national economy.

Market Opportunities

Egypt’s B2B commodity trade exceeds $60 billion annually, yet it remains fragmented, opaque, and under-digitized.

SMEP bridges this gap by introducing a trusted, Sharia-compliant marketplace that streamlines trade, enhances transparency, and reduces intermediation.

With Egypt as a launchpad, the platform is positioned to expand across the GCC and Africa, tapping into rapidly growing regional demand for structured and technology-driven B2B trade

How It Works

SMEP simplifies business-to-business (B2B) commodity trading through a reliable, transparent, and Sharia-compliant process:

Producer and Investor Onboarding

Accredited producers, traders, and investors join the platform after undergoing Know Your Customer (KYC) checks and full compliance.

Commodity Listing and Certification

Products are stored in certified warehouses, undergo quality checks, and are granted a fully featured digital identity.

Real Ownership and Tokenization

Each commodity is tokenized and directly linked to its owner, ensuring real and enforceable ownership rights.

Trading and Settlement

Buyers, whether local or foreign stakeholders, or investors, trade commodities on the platform through instant, Sharia-compliant settlement via digital payment solutions.

Warehousing and Logistics

SMEP provides mandatory warehousing, insurance, and integrated logistics services, including shipping and customs clearance for foreign buyers when needed.

Resale and International Orders

The platform allows product owners to resell their products, and manufacturers to accept international production orders. All parties can benefit from warehousing and inventory withdrawal services in multiple stages after purchase.

Investment Options

SMEP offers multiple entry opportunities for investors, aligned with its ambitious growth strategy:

Seed Stage (US$3-5 million)

Focus: Team building, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and pilot operations.

Launch-and-Run

Ideal for early investors seeking a high equity stake.

Early Expansion Stage (up to US$10 million)

Focus: Large-scale warehousing operations, logistics integration, and GCC market penetration.

Flexible investment structures with equity participation.

Funding for Continued Growth

SMEP will welcome multiple investment rounds to accelerate expansion, international orders, and advanced trading features.

Investors gain an investment opportunity in an innovative venture that offers a wide range of solutions to real- problems, a scalable, Sharia-compliant infrastructure, and the potential for development, service delivery, diversified returns, and continuous horizontal and vertical growth.

SMEP MARKET will transform into two separate entities between the seventh and eighth years of its lifespan.

It will become a commodities exchange operating in accordance with the principles of Islamic Sharia.

and addition, another the second company will provide integrated services for Islamic commodity exchanges (it is expected that more than one similar market will exist during this phase).

Then company will be offered for public subscription.

From this stage, the vision of the company with the highest market value in Egypt will be realized, God willing.