Tuesday, November 19, 2019 was marked by a convivial ceremony between the banker
Beninese Blaise AHOUANTCHEDE, Managing Director of GIM-UEMOA and his friends and colleagues from the sector
finance and banking.
The whole financial ghota was there. Experts, tax experts, bankers, auditors and many bosses
of banking institutions from the sub-region made the trip to Dakar to show their friendship to Blaise
AHOUANTCHEDE, around a goodbye drink given on the occasion of his departure at the head of GIM-UEMOA
(Interbank Electronic Banking Group of the West African Economic and Monetary Union).
GIM-UEMOA is a regional body, set up in 2003 by the Central Bank of African States
of the West (BCEAO) and the banking community. It has more than 110 members who are establishments
banking, postal and financial.
The GIM-UEMOA manages electronic payments (monetics) and provides processing and clearing
interbank transactions of its members already interconnected to the platform.
The Beninese Blaise AHOUANTCHEDE, who has a strong reputation as a discreet, calm and courteous banker
in the financial community of the Uemoa zone was at the helm of this regional body for more than a
Fifteen years.
Who will now succeed him? His departure comes in a somewhat "agitated" climate of succession with
the arrival of a new deputy general manager, the Ivorian Meyaning COULIBALY.
Does the latter have the adequate safe to succeed Blaise AHOUANTCHEDE, wonder many
leading specialists in the banking sector.
Indiscretions also report cold relations between the now ex-boss of GIM-UEMOA and the Malian
Oumar Tatam LY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the institution. Information that remains to be
confirmed by both parties.
According to authorized sources reaching Confidential Africa, Blaise AHOUANTCHEDE intends to take
a sabbatical year before deciding on his post GIM-UEMOA life. Good wind the artist Blaise!