Access to Financial Market: Openings for Small Investors now Available

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Access to Financial Market: Openings for Small Investors now Available

A workshop organized by Talk Invest enlightened small investors that with FCFA 1,000, they can be pa

08 juil. 2025 22:32

The Financial market has been simplified in the CEMAC sub-regions as small investors now have the access to invest in the market hitherto reserved for big companies and personalities. During the second edition of a workshop organized by Talk Invest on the theme “How to invest differently in property and on the CEMAC stock market,” organisers raised awareness of the opportunities offered by the Central African financial market through the Central African Stock Exchange (BVMAC). According to the Promoter of Talk Invest Forum, Guy Nfondop, the amount to be invested doesn’t matter anymore as BVMAC now has new regulations that make it possible to invest at very low prices which is already possible through applications such as Ejara, where securities are already fragmented and where people can acquire small fragments from FCFA 1,000. “It is important to tell people that it is very important to have savings. At least 30% of what we earn, must be able to be saved and the best way to ensure that these savings do not lose value, but rather gain value, is to invest them in assets that are safeguarded by the Central African Financial Market Supervisory Commission (COSUMAF). It was also important to let them know that from now on, it will be possible to finance projects, SMEs and others, directly from the stock exchange,” he explained. According to the promoter of Talk Invest, it is an excellent lever for investment, especially for SMEs, and for boosting wealth creation in the Central African sub-region. To the managing director of BVMAC, Louis Banga there are already a number of players involved in fractionalization. “The bonds that governments issue on the financial market, for example, cost 10,000 and the fractionalization platforms split them up and sell them to more people. We want this to be industrialised and institutionalised so that we can speed up the process of financial inclusion,” BVMAC Managing Director explained. Given that there are families, students, small tradesmen, bayam-sellam, motorbike drivers whose savings ac...