The Bank Al-Maghrib is the central bank of the Kingdom of Morocco. It was founded in 1959 as the successor to the State Bank of Morocco. In 2008 Bank Al-Maghrib held reserves of foreign currency with an estimated worth of US$36 billion. In addition to currency management, the Bank Al-Maghrib also supervises a number of private banks supplying commercial banking services. The bank is headquartered on Avenue Mohammed V in Rabat; it has a branch in Casablanca and agencies in 18 other cities in Morocco.
The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale, known from 1853 to 1901 as Banque du Sénégal and from 1965 to 1990 as the Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique Occidentale (BIAO), was a bank headquartered in Dakar. During most of its history it was the main or only commercial bank and bank of issue in French Senegal and French West Africa.
Casablanca Technopark is an information technology business cluster complex located at Casablanca, Morocco. It was inaugurated in October 2001.
Banque Commerciale du Maroc was a bank founded in 1911, shortly ahead of the establishment of the French protectorate in Morocco. The bank was initially controlled by France's Banque Transatlantique, then from 1941 by the Crédit Industriel et Commercial, and from 1988 by Morocco's ONA Group. In 2004, it merged with Wafa bank to form Attijariwafa Bank.
Wafabank was a private bank in Morocco. It was the successor in Morocco of the Compagnie Algérienne, which had established its first Moroccan branch in Tangier in 1904, later complemented by branches in Casablanca and other Moroccan cities. By 1959, the Compagnie Algérienne had 38 branches in Morocco, the largest network in the country.
The Banque Marocaine pour le Commerce et l'Industrie is a bank in Morocco, headquartered in Casablanca. It is majority-owned subsidiary of Paris-based BNP Paribas (BNPP), and originates from the Moroccan operations of a predecessor of BNPP, the Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (BNCI).
BCP Group, also referred to as Crédit Populaire du Maroc and popularly known under the brand Banque Populaire or Chaabi, is a major financial services group in Morocco, headquartered in Casablanca. The acronym BCP stands for the group's central entity, the Banque Centrale Populaire which also operates retail services in the region of Casablanca and El Jadida. The group also comprises eight regional entities known as Banques Populaires Régionales: these are, respectively, Centre-Sud, Fez-Meknes, Laayoune, Marrakesh-Beni Mellal, Nador-Al Hoceima, Oujda, Rabat-Kenitra, and Tangier-Tétouan.
Bank of Africa (BOA) is an international financial services group headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco. It was formed through the 2010 acquisition of Bank of Africa by the Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur, following which BMCE rebranded its commercial operations as Bank of Africa in 2020. The BMCE name survives in the byline "BMCE Group" incorporated in the BOA brand identity.
The Compagnie Bancaire de l'Afrique Occidentale is a bank headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. With a history going back to the establishment of the Banque du Sénégal in 1853, it was purchased in November 2007 by Morocco-based Attijariwafa Bank.
Al Mada, formerly the Société Nationale d'Investissement is a large private Moroccan holding company mainly owned by the Moroccan royal family. Headquartered in Casablanca, the company was established in 1966. Al Mada operates in different fields such as banking, telecommunications, renewable energy businesses and food industry among others.
Banca Commerciale Italiana, founded in 1894, was a major Italian bank based in Milan. In 1999, it merged with the group recently formed by the combination of Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde and Banco Ambroveneto to form IntesaBCI, in which BCI temporarily became a sub-holding company. On 1 January 2003, the group's name changed to Banca Intesa, later Intesa Sanpaolo.
The Banque de Tunisie is a bank in Tunisia, the first established in the country in modern times. It has been listed in the Bourse de Tunis since 1990.
Empain-Schneider was a Franco-Belgian industrial group formed in the 1960s from the merger of Belgium's Empain group and France's Schneider & Cie. In 1980, it was renamed Schneider SA. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the group was comprehensively restructured and sold most of its historic activities while acquiring operations linked to electrical equipment, leading up to its renaming in 1999 as Schneider Electric.
The State Bank of Morocco was a quasi-central bank established in 1907 following the Algeciras Conference, to stabilize the Moroccan currency and serve as a vehicle for European and especially French influence in the Sultanate of Morocco. Following the independence of Morocco, it was replaced in 1959 by the newly created Banque du Maroc, known since 1987 as Bank Al-Maghrib.
The Compagnie Algérienne, from 1942 to 1948 Compagnie Algérienne de Crédit et de Banque, was a significant French bank with operations in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon as well as mainland France. It was formed in 1877 in a restructuring of its predecessor entity, the Société Générale Algérienne, itself founded in 1865-68. The Compagnie Algérienne eventually merged in 1960 with the Banque de l'Union Parisienne. Following a series of subsequent restructurings, its main successor entities as of 2022 are the Crédit du Nord in France, the Crédit populaire d'Algérie in Algeria, the Banque de Tunisie in Tunisia, Attijariwafa Bank in Morocco, and the Banque Libano-Française in Lebanon.
Société Générale Morocco, formal name the Société Générale Marocaine de Banques since 1965 (SGMB), is the Moroccan subsidiary of Société Générale, headquartered in Casablanca and originally established in 1913. In April 2024, Société Générale announced the sale of its majority stake in SGMB to the Saham Group controlled by Moroccan financier Moulay Hafid Elalamy.
The Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (BICI) was a network of banks in sub-Saharan Africa created from 1962 onwards by Paris-based Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (BNCI). Following successive mergers it was inherited by BNCI's successors the Banque Nationale de Paris then BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas sold most of the BICI network in the early 2020s.
