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Attijariwafa bank is an international financial services group headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco. Since its formation in 2004 by merger between Banque Commerciale du Maroc (in Arabic, bank at-tijari) and Wafabank, it has been the leading bank in Morocco and kept that rank as of 2024. It is listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
Attijariwafa Bank is controlled by the Al Mada holding company, which is affiliated with the Moroccan royal family.
The bank maintains offices in Europe and Asia, and has expanded significantly into sub-Saharan Africa. It was the fifth largest bank in Africa in 2021, ranked by Tier 1 capital. Together with Maroc Telecom, it was also one of two Moroccan companies ranked among the 20 leading companies in Africa in 2022.
History
In 2005, Attijariwafa Bank in consortium with Banco Santander acquired 54 percent of Banque du Sud in Tunisia, subsequently renamed Attijari Bank. In Senegal, it obtained a banking license in 2005 and started its own operations in 2006; acquired a 67 percent stake in the country's fifth-largest bank, Banque Sénégalo-Tunisienne (BST), in January 2007; and acquired a 79 percent stake in the Compagnie Bancaire de l'Afrique Occidentale in April 2008, which it merged with its other Senegalese operations in December of that year, under the name CBAO Groupe Attijariwafa Bank.: 10 .
In November 2008, the group acquired a 51 percent stake in Banque internationale pour le Mali (BIM, est. 1980 in Bamako). In late 2009, it acquired the operations of Crédit Agricole in four more countries, namely Crédit du Congo (est. 2002 in Brazzaville), Union Gabonaise de Banque (UGB, est. 1962 in Libreville), Société Ivoirienne de Banque (SIB, est. 1962 in Abidjan), and Crédit du Sénégal (est. 1989 in Dakar). In December 2010, it partnered with BCP Group to acquire a 80 percent stake in BNP Paribas Mauritanie (est. 2006 in Nouakchott), then purchased a 51 percent stake in Société Commerciale de Banque Cameroun (SCB Cameroun, est. 1989 in Yaoundé), and in September 2013, a 55 percent stake in Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique au Togo (BIA Togo, in Lomé). In 2017, it acquired 100 percent of the former Barclays subsidiary in Egypt. In the meantime, the group also established operations in Guinea-Bissau in 2008, and through its Senegalese subsidiary CBAO in Burkina Faso in 2011, Niger in 2013, and Benin in 2015.: 10-11
By end-2018, Attijariwafa Bank had operations in 15 African countries with a network of over 4,300 branches which it viewed as the most extensive in Africa.: 5
On 8 November 2022, Attijariwafa Bank partnered with Union Bank of Nigeria to expand its operations in Africa.
On 10 August 2023, Attijariwafa Bank has launched a new payment solution powered by Apple Pay.
As of end-2023, the group's operations in Africa outside Morocco represented around a quarter of its total assets, with the largest contributions coming from Tunisia (5.6 percent), Egypt (4.7 percent), Côte d'Ivoire (4.1 percent), and Senegal (3.8 percent).: 27
Leadership
Mohamed El Kettani has been chairman and CEO (French: président-directeur général) of Attijariwafa Bank since 2007. Abdelaziz Alami was honorary chair as of 2013.
Ownership
As of late 2013, the main shareholders of Attijariwafa Bank were Al Mada (47.77%), Moroccan cooperative insurers MCMA-MAMDA (8.09%), Government-owned Caisse de dépôt et de gestion (4.26% via RCAR and 2.31 directly), Santander Group (5.27%, via Santusa Holding), and other Moroccan institutional investors (CIMR 2.34%, CMR 2.27%, Axa Maroc 1.37%, RMA-Watanya 1.32%), plus 6.61 percent held by the group's own insurance arm Wafa Assurance and 4.54 percent held by its employees. By end-2023, the group's ownership structure had remained substantially stable, with Al Mada's share slightly lower at 46.5 percent.: 6
See also
List of banks in Morocco
References
External links
Attijariwafa Bank Portal – French language
company profile at Reuters Archived 24 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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