Côte d'Ivoire is hardly the obvious place to find Africa's next banking boom. The world’s largest cocoa and cashew producer remains on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, faces security threats along its northern border and has experienced periods of political instability over the past two decades. Yet those challenges have done little to deter Africa's biggest lenders. Instead, they are arriving. Barely two months after Nigeria's Zenith Bank opened its first-ever Francophone African subsidiary in Côte d'Ivoir on April 29
Côte d'Ivoire is hardly the obvious place to find Africa's next banking boom. The world’s largest cocoa and cashew producer remains on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, faces security threats along its northern border and has experienced periods of political instability over the past two decades. Yet those challenges have done little to deter Africa's biggest lenders. Instead, they are arriving. Barely two months after Nigeria's Zenith Bank opened its first-ever Francophone African subsidiary in Côte d'Ivoir on April 29