Browsing: Banks & Insurance

According to the Treasury and Public Accounting Department of Côte d’Ivoire, the country’s banking sector recorded a balance sheet total…

By Amath Ndiaye, Senior Lecturer, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar. The debate on the CFA arouses a lot of…

The volume of premiums issued in life and non-life is down slightly for Africa (1.3%) over the period 2013 to…...

South Africa’s insurer and financial services group, Sanlam, has announced the complete resumption of the Rwandan insurance companies Soras Assurance…...

At the end of the first half of 2018, the Gabonese reinsurer saw a decrease of 2.56% of the turnover…...

French bank Société Générale has announced its goal of increasing its market share in its Ghana operations to 7%. “We…

Economist and banker Cheickna Bounajim Cisse has just published “FCFA – Hidden Face of African Finance” (Ed BoD, 2019). The…

According to the Evolution of the Togolese Financial System presented in the National Development Plan (NDP), the analysis of the…

According to its results not yet audited, the Tunisian insurance company Salim recorded, in 2018, a 13% increase in its…

In Nigeria, Guinea Insurance Plc’s activities were suspended by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) in a decision issued on January…

The Ghanaian subsidiary of the Old Mutual Insurance Company has announced the appointment of a new General Manager in the…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has allocated a 5.12-hectare piece of land in Abuja to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)…

After almost ten years in the top management of the world’s largest financial companies, the Franco-Ivorian banker is expected to…...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected on Tuesday, January 29, 210 million USD on the interbank foreign exchange market…

In Togo, less than 1% of bank loans go to the agricultural sector, which accounts for 60% of the active…

Emirati Emirates Bank NBD won for the second time in a row the “Best Bank” award in Egypt for 2018…

According to a statement issued by the Banque de l’Habitat (BH), the institution’s NBI rose by 17.5% in 2018 to…

Société Générale Côte d’Ivoire was awarded the “Best Trade Finance Service Provider 2019” award from the Ivorian market by Global…

Afreximbank President Prof. Benedict Oramah addressing participants at the opening of the Financing Investment and Trade in Africa conference in…

The operationalization of the newly-created Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA) moved into high gear today with the holding of the…

By Brice Kouao. WHAT IS THE MOST OFFENSIVE BANK FOR CREDITS IN COTE D’IVOIRE? Between 2013 and 2017, loans granted…...

Mauritian bank SBM Bank on Thursday (January 24th) inaugurated its first wholly-owned subsidiary in India. The ceremony was chaired by…

The Central Bank of Mauritania (BCM) officially launched Thursday, January 24, a contest called “FinTech Challenge”. It was in partnership…

The announced acquisition since the end of 2018 of the Nigerian Diamond Bank Plc bank by Access Bank Plc to…

Mr. Director of Publication, It was with great surprise that I read the article entitled “Haussmann Group Africa from success…

This is what we learn from a statement issued on Thursday (January 24th) by the French banking group which denies…

The French Jacqueline Casalegno, founder of the company Chanas Assurances died on January 23, 2019 in Douala at the age…

In a note published on the Mena region and Turkey, the US rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S & P)…

By Achille Mog Pibasso, Douala. The Central African Banking Commission (COBAC) declared that the approval of the Bank of Africa…...

The CNPS, the social welfare institution dedicated to the Ivorian private sector, is multiplying its performances. At the end of…