Paying a merchant with your phone, whatever your operator or bank, in any CEMAC country: that is the goal of the reforms led by the BEAC and GIMAC. Where do things stand, and where does Chad fit in?
After loosening monetary policy in June, the Bank of Central African States chose to change nothing at the end of September. Its caution leaves businesses waiting for the last Monetary Policy Committee meeting of the year.
Executive MBA and customer-experience expert, she puts the customer at the centre of banking strategy.
From 1 November 2026, “old range” coins issued between 1958 and 1985 can no longer be used to pay in CEMAC. You have one year to exchange them. Which coins, where, and until when.
Head of risk at Ecobank Chad, she has built recognised expertise in risk management over more than fifteen years.
Hicham Ibni Oumar, managing director of Banque de l’Habitat du Tchad, becomes president of Chad’s Professional Association of Credit Institutions.
The average cost of bank loans is falling in CEMAC. Good news for investment, but it hides wide differences from one country, and one borrower, to the next.
Meeting in N'Djamena in early October, the BEAC board approved the framework for its programme to buy gold produced in the region. An ambitious project that could directly involve Chad's gold sector.
BGFIBank group's stock market listing gave the regional financial market a real boost. The challenge now is to build on it: attract new companies, including Chadian ones, and keep trading alive.
CEMAC countries' economic programmes with the International Monetary Fund depend on a little-known regional exercise: the review of common policies. An explainer on an issue that weighs heavily on the zone's public finances.
The presidency’s communicator takes the helm of public broadcasting; the former head of BSIC-Chad moves to the bank’s headquarters in Tripoli.
President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno wants to make the 2027 budget a tool for economic transformation. The growth target is ambitious, well above the forecasts of international institutions.
