WAEMU and Côte d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara and French President Emmanuel Macron announced last month that the CFA franc, which had been in place since 1945, would be renamed and subjected to ...

The West African Economic and Monetary Union has agreed with France to a number of changes to the CFA franc currency, including a new name, Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara said Saturday, as ...

The central bank of France plans to pilot a central bank digital currency for financial institutions by the end of the first quarter of 2020. The central bank of France plans to pilot a central bank ...

On December 21, 2019, President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d'Ivoire and Emmanuel Macron of France announced a major currency reform in several West African Francophone countries. In 2020, eight West ...

After Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara announced on 21 December 2019 in Abidjan that the CFA franc is nearing its end and set to be replaced by the Eco, people in Africa’s Franc Zone began ...

A bloc of eight countries will rename their French-backed currency and France will scrap a contentious requirement for reserve deposits. By Ruth Maclean DAKAR, Senegal — A bloc of West African states ...

The central bank of France officially announced a program of experiments to test the interbank integration of central bank digital currencies. As a number of global jurisdictions like the Bahamas and ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - France intends to set up a currency swap line with China to make Paris a major offshore yuan trading hub in Europe, competing against London, the China Daily on Saturday cited Bank ...