LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Barclays has completedthe sale of its Egyptian unit to Morocco's Attijariwafa Bank, the British bank said on Tuesday, as it continues todispose of assets not deemed core to a new strategy focused onthe United States and Britain.
The sale will result in a reduction of about 2 billionpounds ($2.55 billion) in the bank's risk-weighted assets,Barclays said, boosting its core capital ratio by about 0.1percent.
Reuters reported Attijariwafa's interest last month.
($1 = 0.7843 pounds) (Reporting by Lawrence White; editing by David Clarke)