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  • It is a financial document that provides information on the financial situation of a credit institution.

  • A group with predominantly banking activities.

  • The activities carried out by a banking group when the following two conditions are met: (i) the group's activities are primarily conducted in the financial sector, (ii) the banking sector has a greater weight than other entities in the financial sector.

  • An institution primarily composed of natural persons and operating under the rules of mutual or cooperative action as defined by the law regulating the decentralized financial systems (SFD) of the WAEMU.

  • International Bank Identifier Number (IBAN), used to facilitate transactions between banking institutions. It consists of 8 to 11 characters, including the bank code, country code, location code, and branch code.

  • A document by which a person called 'the drawer' orders another person called 'the drawee' to pay, on a specified date, a determined amount to a 'payee', who may either be the drawer themselves or a third party (following an endorsement).

  • Instrument by which a person called "the drawer" gives the order to another person called "the drawee" to pay, on an agreed date, a specific sum, to a "beneficiary" who may be either the drawer himself or a third (following an endorsement).

  • A company controlled by a company which owns more than half of the voting rights, or any company over which a company exercises exclusive control.

March 20 and 21

146st Session of the Supervisory Board of the WAMU Banking Commission