Regional Financial Market
Regional Financial Market
The West African Monetary Union's Financial Markets Authority is responsible for :
- Organizing public savings appeals.
- Licensing and regulating central market structures and commercial participants.
- Monitoring stock market operations.
- Approving fees for commercial participants (SGI, SGP).
- Issuing professional licenses to market participants.
Its main mission is to protect investments in securities and other public savings initiatives across member states.
History
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2013September 16, 2013
Switch to continuous quotation.
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2007July 2nd, 2007
Change in settlement/delivery deadline from T+5 to T+3.
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2001November 12, 2001
Daily listing
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1999March 24, 1999
Decentralized electronic quotation
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1998September 16, 1998
Start-up of BRVM and DC/BR activities with the listing of 35 companies inherited from the former Abidjan Stock Exchange (BVA) + centralized listing with a T+5 settlement/delivery cycle.
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1998December 3, 1998
Founding General Meeting of the Association Professionnelle des SGI (APSGI) with 18 SGI members
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19973rd July 1997
Signature of the amendment to the agreement establishing CREPMF, following the accession of Guinea-Bissau.
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1997October 20th, 1997
Investiture of the first members of the Regional Council
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1997November 28, 1997
Adoption by the WAMU Council of Ministers of the General Regulations governing the organization, operation and supervision of the WAMU financial market.
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199729th November 1997
Approval of BRVM and DC/BR
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1996December 18, 1996
Creation of BRVM and DC/BR
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1996July 3, 1996
Signature of the agreement creating the Conseil Régional de l'Epargne Publique et des Marchés Financiers (CREPMF), now the Autorité des Marchés Financiers of the Union Monétaire Ouest Africaine
(http://www.crepmf.org/Wwwcrepmf/Actualites/Pdf/DECISION_13-09-2022.pdf).)
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1993December 17, 1993
Decision of the WAMU Council of Ministers to create a regional financial market and to entrust BCEAO with the management of the project to set it up.
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1973November 14th 1973
Signature of the revised WAMU Treaty stipulating the creation of a regional financial market.
