The BRVM and the DC/BR held awareness-raising meetings for institutional investors, liberal professions and Ivorian SMEs on 25, 26 and 27 February 2020 in Abidjan. These meetings are part of the implementation of the strategy of targeted promotion of the BRVM and the DC/BR among current and potential players in the WAEMU Regional Financial Market.

Discussions with Ivorian Institutional investors focused on the role they must play in the animation of the secondary market through a more active management of their investments in order to optimize the triptych security / liquidity / profitability. The orders of the liberal professions have been made aware of the opportunities presented by the Market for the diversification of the sources of profitability of savings and the increase of the wealth of the middle class. The meeting with SMEs brought together around the BRVM the companies participating in the BRVM Lounge Elite Program as well as prospects who wish to access long-term financing through the capital market.

These SMEs, most of which have high growth potential, have been built on the advantages of opening up capital and the IPO, particularly on the BRVM's Third Compartment in order to ensure their sustainability and long-term development. The following emerged from these three days of exchanges: the need for institutional investors to take advantage of the market by effectively managing risks through appropriate tools and qualified human resources; the need to organize specific training workshops for insurance and reinsurance companies as well as for professional orders; the need to engage in discussions with CIMA, CIPRES and FANAF with a view to promoting better intervention by insurance companies and pension funds in the market by adjusting existing regulations; the importance of continuing communication and awareness-raising actions in order to further disseminate the stock market culture among the WAEMU populations.

These meetings were attended by the Director General of the CRRAE UEMOA, representatives of the CNPS, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations de la Côte d'Ivoire, the Military Provident Fund, the Directorate General of Taxes, Professional Orders of Chartered Accountants, Notaries, Lawyers, Doctors, Real Estate Experts, insurance companies SUNU, NSIA Assurances, Atlantique Assurances Vie, SAHAM Assurances, as well as companies such as COFINA, Hyper Access Systems, Petro Ivoire, ENSBTP, GAS and OIL, GEBAT, SIAG, BANIBAH, Agro West Africa, etc.

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