Mamane Sidi, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, in charge of Economy, Finance and Budget, kicked off the 7th â Congress of chartered accountants from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). This high-level event brings together experts, decision-makers and innovators to rethink the accounting professions in the face of digital and economic challenges.

Organized at the Mahatma International Conference Center Gandhi from Niamey, the congress highlights the issues related to digitalization, transparency and financial governance in a rapidly changing economic context. The debates, panels and workshops aim to strengthen the capacities of accounting professionals in the face of challenges technological and regulatory.

In this context, the UMOA Financial Markets Authority (AMF-UMOA) plays a central role. Created on 3 July 1996, the AMF-UMOA is the supervisory body of the Regional Financial Market. She is responsible for guaranteeing the protection of invested savings, to authorize fund raising, to approve commercial stakeholders and to oversee the management structures of market. Its headquarters are based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and it operates in eight member countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

The interaction between AMF-UMOA and Chartered accountants are essential to ensure the reliability of information financial, the compliance of market transactions and the confidence of investors. This conference is therefore an ideal platform to strengthen synergies between regulators and practitioners, in order to build a market more robust and inclusive regional financial system.