The much-anticipated third board of the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) that is dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was launched in 2017. With this new compartment the aim is to provide smaller companies – which account for around 80% of the economic structure of the UEMOA – access to long-term financial...
The period of easily raising funds from abroad seems to be coming to an end for emerging markets around the world. In the new environment of higher interest rates in the US and increased competition for capital flows, portfolio managers are becoming more selective with where they place their money.
The UEMOA banking system, which has experienced accelerated development over the last five years with average annual growth of 13% of the total sector balance sheet, has remained globally stable and profitable. Nonetheless, there are still pockets of vulnerability. Indeed, some banks are still undercapitalised and several small banks still do...
In a bid to support the bottom line of state-owned oil producer Société Nationale d’Opérations Pétrolière de la Côte d’Ivoire (Petroci), the government decided to implement a financial and operational restructuring plan in 2015. A few years on and the strategy is bearing fruit, with Petroci set to post its third consecutive year of profits in...
With a favourable mining code, yet largely untapped potential, Côte d’Ivoire has become an exploration hotspot in West Africa. In recent years many international companies have rushed to install operations, helping the country more than double gold production since 2012. However, having missed the booming mining years of the early 2000s due to...
In April 2016 the Inter-African Conference of Insurance Markets (Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d’ Assurances, CIMA), which oversees insurance regulation in 14 African countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, adopted a major reform aimed to protect the region’s reinsurance industry. Two years on, changes appear to be paying off for local...
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