Marcopolis.net Video Interview with Souleymane Diarrassouba, Managing Director of ABI (Atlantic Business International), also available here http://marcopolis.net/overview-of-abi-atlantic-business-international-1512.htm

"We have initiated many structural projects in all segments of our industry with the injection of money we received from BCP, which allowed all our affiliate banks, especially Banque Atlantique Côte d’Ivoire, to comply automatically with the prudential measures in terms of solvency and credit-rating; and endowed our bank with adequate resources to develop our policy for the financing of the economy. We deployed efforts immediately, and after the first three months of operations, we could see some benefit. We have certain budget planning tools in place, like medium term programming, which enable us to make 3-year projections for our main activities under the wing of BCP, and to launch a few investment programs in terms of information systems or branch re-branding and sharing of best practices between BCP and Côte d’Ivoire. We worked with BCP on all these structural projects, as well as the enhancement of the rules of governance. We also worked on new products for both retail and corporate customers, always in a spirit of synergy between BCP affiliates and subsidiaries of the Banque Atlantique Group", says Souleymane Diarrassouba.

To read the full transcript of the MarcoPolis interview with Souleymane Diarrassouba, Managing Director of ABI (Atlantic Business International), visit Marcopolis.net http://marcopolis.net/abi-and-banque-atlantique-group-banking-and-financial-sectors-in-cote-divoire-2111.htm