The African Automobile Credit Company (SAFCA), specialized in investment financing and leasing and listed on the Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM), will increase its capital through a cash contribution of 1.5 billion CFA francs (2,700 million dollars), announced the BRVM executives.
The planned operation will result in the creation of 3,750,000 new shares, with an issuance price of 400 CFA francs. According to the BRVM executives, a Preferential Subscription Right (PSR) will be attached to each old share (1 right for 1 old share) with a subscription ratio of 06 new shares for 13 old shares. They also estimate that the closing date for registration is set for Monday, April 27, 2026, and the SAFCA share will trade ex-PSR from Friday, April 24, 2026. The theoretical value of the Preferential Subscription Right will be published on Thursday, April 23, 2026, in the Official Stock Exchange Bulletin (BOC).
The trading period for PSR is set from Monday, April 27 to Tuesday, June 9, 2026. As for the subscription period for new shares, it is set by the stock exchange authorities from Monday, April 27 to Thursday, June 11, 2026.
The effective date for the newly created shares is set for January 1, 2025.
SAFCA, operating commercially under the name of Alios Finance Côte d’Ivoire, is an Ivorian joint-stock company with a Board of Directors that was established in 1956. This company also has a branch in San Pedro and branches in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal. As of December 31, 2024, its share capital of 3.248 billion CFA francs was held at 52.02% by Alios Finance SA. Since April 30, 2025, the majority shareholder is now CREDAF GROUP (a pan-African financial holding company founded by Ivorian industrialist Serge Aimé Bile) with a 52.02% stake, succeeding Alios Finance SA.
At the end of the first half of 2025, the company reported a profit of 226 million CFA francs compared to a loss of 37 million CFA francs in the first half of 2024 (+710%).
Its net banking income (NBI) had increased by 20%, reaching 2.092 billion CFA francs compared to 1.741 billion CFA francs as of June 30, 2024.
As for its equity and similar resources, they had modestly increased by 2%, to 5.441 billion CFA francs compared to 5.343 billion CFA francs as of June 30, 2024.
