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OCP Kenya: The Prosecutor’s office withdraws its charges

Rédaction - 12 mai, 2019

The Director of Public Prosecutions announced today that the charges leveled against OCP Kenya and its officers on June 22, 2018 have been lifted, in...

Djibouti State Sentenced to Pay USD 385 Million to DP World

Nephthali Messanh Ledy - 18 avril, 2019

The London Court of International Arbitration has ordered the State of Djibouti to pay USD 385 million in compensation to Dubai Port World Port...

The legal & financial chronicle (1)

foulah baldé - 9 février, 2019

By Massandouno Doussou Komara. Repatriation of assets stolen by corrupt leaders: from theory to reality The return of stolen assets by corrupt leaders to their countries...

The BRVM seals a partnership with CIPME

Rédaction - 7 février, 2019

The Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM) and the Côte d'Ivoire SME Agency (CIPME) signed a memorandum of understanding under the Chairmanship of the Ivorian State...

France: Total judged for « corruption of public officials abroad »

Rédaction - 20 octobre, 2018

The prosecutor's office on Friday ordered the confiscation of 250 million euros against the oil group Total, tried for corruption of foreign public officials...

Angola: The son of former President Dos Santos placed in pre-trial detention

Rédaction - 1 octobre, 2018

The former head of the Angolan sovereign wealth fund, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, was placed in pre-trial detention on Monday (September 24th) by the...

A new financial scandal at ASECNA

Rédaction - 1 octobre, 2018

The Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) is again wet in a hijacking case. This time, a hole of...

UK justice prevents Djibouti port company from terminating joint venture with DP Word

Rédaction - 11 septembre, 2018

On 5 September 2018, the High Court of England and Wales issued an injunction prohibiting the Djibouti port company, Port of Djibouti SA (PDSA),...

Taxation of SMEs in Francophone Africa: the indispensable reform

Rédaction - 6 septembre, 2018

By Christian Kazumba *. Real tax havens for businesses! This is the way the current rumor or people who are not very well informed often...

ICSID: Mauritania wins arm wrestling against Bumi (Exclusive)

Adama WADE - 31 juillet, 2018

The two-year dispute with the Paris-based International Center for the Resolution of Disputes and Investment Disputes (ICSID) has seen the Mauritanian state's dispute with...

Sierra Leone: clean slate on mining contracts

Rédaction - 7 juin, 2018

The Sierra Leonean government will proceed with the upcoming review of its mining code adopted in 2009, as well as a review of all...

DRC mining code: the G7 threatens to seize justice

Rédaction - 7 juin, 2018

Patrons of mining companies working in the DRC and in disagreement with the DRC government on the new mining code have sent a note...

Events

december

03decAll Day143rd Edition International Fair of Yaoundé (FIYAO)

Event Details

THEME

Entrepreneurship, the Digital Economy and the Green Economy: Challenges and Impact on Growth for Sustainable Development.

EDITORIAL

Today, the whole world is migrating more and more into the digital sector because the opportunities that come from digital are very numerous and much wider. However, it must be kept in mind that a materialization of the exchanges remains imperative to concretize the transactions.

Under the theme « Entrepreneurship, Digital Economy and Green Economy: Challenges and Impacts on Growth for Sustainable Development », the third edition of the Yaoundé International Fair (FIYAO) is a broad business portal, information, training , entertainment, culture and tourism that opens once again in Cameroon for the year 2019, and offers a meeting with all representatives of economic, industrial, craft and social life.

With a forecast of 200,000 visitors (free entrance) for 500 companies / exhibitors from twenty countries, it is the ideal place for the delivery of your offers and services; for a direct proximity to your target and to build a national and international address book that will enhance the image of your organization.

The FIYAO is a special place to make an opinion for yourself, test a product, attend demonstrations and especially introduce young people and especially women to business to ensure succession at both national and international levels.

The involvement of the Cameroonian government and the media (TV / Radios / Presses) that accompany us, are a pledge of assurance and success of the event for festival-goers and visitors. That said, the FIYAO 2019 will transform Yaounde into a global hub of youth insertion, business and discovery for twelve (12) days.

A team of insiders selected with tact to make you live the unforgettable moments from 03 to 14 December 2019 at the Palais des Sports in Yaounde.

Thank you to you who will contribute to the success of this unique event for youth. This file is yours, it allows you to become a partner of the FIYAO 2019.

Brice TCHAKOUNTE, Director General of FIYAO

Time

december 3 (Tuesday) - 14 (Saturday)

Location

FOIRE INTERNATIONALE DE YAOUNDE

Palais des Sports

Organizer

Association Camerounaise pour le Développement et 77 PATRONAGE INSTITUTIONNEL le Réarmement & l’association Jeunesse Unie et Solidaire d’Afriquebrice.tchakounte@fiyao.cm Contact@fiyao.cm

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04dec(dec 4)1:00 am06(dec 6)1:00 amAfrica Guarantee Fund's invitation to Saly (Senegal): reserved exclusively for bankers and financiers

19dec9:00 am11:00 pmAbidjan, Financial Afrik Awards, The 100 Transforming Africa

Event Details

THE STRATEGIC PANEL

« CURRENCY, DISRUPTION AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION »

While it has adopted various national and regional strategies to improve the financial inclusion of the greatest number and that it thinks about new monetary unions, Africa must face the great disruption born from the technological and digital revolutions of these latest. The high rate of penetration of mobile telephony, the development of crypto-currencies, social money and other new forms of means of payment, while posing new challenges to regulators and security agents (risk of money laundering, financing of terrorism and the underground economy), opens up new horizons of opportunity. The Abidjan panel brings together operators, regulators and financiers around these major issues.

In the program

9 am to 9:15

Opening of the African Finance Day and introduction of the debate:

Guest speaker

9h: 15 – 10h: 15

Panel 1:
Money, disruption and financial inclusion

ECOWAS is moving towards a single currency. at the same time, cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Libra) are emerging with a strong interaction between the real economy and the virtual economy, bank accounts and wallets, telephony operators, virtual platforms (GAFA) and the banks. Central banks, whose functions include regulating the quantity of money in circulation and exchange rates, will have to « disrupt » their missions to maintain overall coherence.

Cryptocurrencies: potential in financial inclusion and regulatory issues
Electronic currencies and inclusion of SMEs
Regulatory issues of new currencies in banks and the stock market

Questions answers

10h15-11h15
Panel 2:
cost of including Africa in global finance

Due to a still high perception of country risk, Africa’s integration into the global financial chain and logistics chain is expensive. Import-export operations between Africa and the rest of the world are weighed down by a series of costs, punctures and practices that increase the cost of living on the continent. The same is true of long-term capital raising costs in the international financial market.

International borrowing: how to lower costs
Realities and Perceptions of Africa Country Risk, By Stanislas ZEZE, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bloomfield-Investment
Country risk coverage, cost and inequality, by Ali Benhamed, banker

Questions answers

Coffee break and networking: 11.15am – 11.30am
11h30-12h30
Panel 3: Banking, Meningofinance, Microcredit and Financial Inclusion

Like Asia and Bangladesh in particular, Africa has an alternative in mesofinance and microfinance to facilitate access to basic financial services. This panel revisits the models, successes and constraints inherent in the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa.

Questions answers

12.30-13.30
Panel 4:
Stock market, SME financing and financial inclusion

Beyond its role as a place of organized confrontation of supply and demand, the stock market is also a powerful tool for valuing savings and investment. How to ensure that the online stock market, Cryptocurrency and the ability for households to access Forex and other markets, can serve as a lever for SME financing and not the escape of capital and foreign exchange?

Questions answers

lunch: 13h30 -15h00

Panel 5:
Fintech, electronic banking, Mobile banking, inclusion factors

Banks, insurance and financial services in general have to reinvent themselves with Fintech at the risk of being supplanted by these new players.

Questions answers

Closing remarks

Summary of the financial day

Reading 2020 perspectives

Gala dinner 19h30- 22 hours

The 100 that are transforming Africa

Award ceremony of African finance

Time

(Thursday) 9:00 am - 11:00 pm

Location

Hôtel Pullman Abidjan-Rue Abdoulaye Fadiga 01, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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