Following its simultaneous issuance of a Treasury recovery bond (DSB) of maturity 3, 5 and 10 years, the State of Mali, through the National Directorate of The Treasury and Public Accounting, raised an amount of 65 billion FCFA on May 19, 2021 on the financial market of the Monetary Union West African Silence (WAMU).

The issuance of the RDAs initiated by the WAMU-Securities agency in collaboration with the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) aims to enable the issuer to mobilize the savings of natural and legal persons in order to ensure the coverage of the financing needs of the State budget of Mali within the framework of its economic recovery plans to contain the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and return to pre-health crisis performance.

This issue from Mali is the third of its kind after the 87.798 billion FCFA and the 44 billion FCFA raised respectively on February 24 and March 31, 2021. After auction, the UMOA-Titres agency listed 179.460 billion CFA francs of global bids from investors on an amount put up for auction by the issuer of 65 billion CFA francs. This gives a coverage rate of the amount put out to tender of 276.09%. On the amount of the bids, the Malian Public Treasury retained 65 billion FCFA and rejected the remaining 114.460 billion FCFA, i.e. an absorption rate of 36.22%.