BCEAO to hold this week, a major Fintech forum focused on blockchain and virtual currencies, among others

Finance
Monday, 28 October 2019 13:20
BCEAO to hold this week, a major Fintech forum focused on blockchain and virtual currencies, among others

(Togo First) - In collaboration with the World Bank, the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) is organizing on October 30-31 an international fintech conference.

The conference will be held at the BCEAO headquarters in Dakar and regroup experts and heads of regional and international regulatory organs, knowingly the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), the West African Development Bank (BOAD), the Regional Council for Public Savings and Financial Markets (CREPMF) and the Central Bank of Egypt.

The initiative aims at creating a framework for talks and knowledge sharing relative to fintech regulation and monitoring. Major topics that will be covered at the conference include blockchain use in finances, digital lending's evolution, virtual currencies and digital currencies issued by central banks, methods of regulation and monitoring of fintechs.

Expected at the forum are representatives of ministries of finance from the WAEMU States, including Togo, governors of the central banks of non-WAEMU States, namely Mauritania, Ghana, Sierra Leone and of Central African States also.

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

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