In September 2018 the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), which is headquartered in Abidjan, will celebrate its first 20 years in operation. The past decade has seen a significant increase in the volume of listings, liquidity, valuations and the number of market participants. A long-awaited third compartment of the equity market was launched in the final month of 2017, while the...