Abidjan, October 20, 2021 – The Savings, Investment and Heritage Fair (SEIP 2021), a platform for professionals from the world of finance in the UEMOA space, organized by Ecobank and the Agency, reopens its doors for a 4th edition, on November 18th. After three editions, including the third, exclusively digital, which were very successful (an average of more than 3,000 participants for more than 4,500 registered online), the event returns this year in a hybrid version combining face-to-face and digital, and will be held at the Sofitel Abidjan Hôtel Ivoire.
The Salon de l’Epargne, de l’Investissement et du Patrimoine, which brings together at each edition, for several years and in one place, more than thirty speakers, is an event allowing free and transparent interaction. between financial sector players and the general public. Its primary objective is to educate populations on financial intelligence and its workings, especially in the Covid-19 context where companies and individuals are struggling to rebuild and reinvent themselves. It is also the place for participants, whether legal or natural persons, to learn from the advice given on the stands and during plenary sessions, master classes and thematic events.
For this 4th edition and in order to provide its visitors with an optimal experience, the organizers of the Savings Fair are offering a dense program that has been completely redesigned, in order to answer questions of financing, investment and savings of the great public.
The financial situation of thousands of us has been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, whether through job loss, inability to work due to illness or any another consequence of the spread of the virus. While we believed that this crisis would be temporary, it makes us understand that we must learn to deal with and live with it and more than ever to build a virtuous circle around its finances to secure its future and that of those close to it, ” explains Mrs. Leticia N ‘cho-Traoré, Director of the Agency and co-organizer of SEIP.
“In a context marked today by the Covid 19 pandemic, savings lie at the heart of every citizen’s anxieties and the concepts of investment and financial security remain at the center of their concerns.
Saving is a solid foundation for financial health and it allows you to grow rich in the short, medium and long term. Through this show, we want to offer our fellow citizens solid, traditional and digital tools that can help them save, invest, and manage their wealth with confidence and security. Said Paul-Harry Aithnard, Managing Director Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire and the UEMOA Region.
Dedicated to all players in the banking sector, microfinance, insurance, real estate, the public sector, and the general public, this show is the ideal opportunity for anyone wishing to better equip themselves, to understand the financial markets and their realities in order to make investments suited to their objectives.
Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire is a subsidiary of the Ecobank Group, the leading independent Pan-African banking group. Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) is the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading independent pan-African banking group. The Ecobank Group employs more than 14,000 people serving approximately 29 million customers in the retail banking, commercial banking and retail banking industries in 33 African countries. The Group has a banking license in France and has representative offices in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Johannesburg in South Africa, Beijing in China, London in the United Kingdom and in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The Group offers a full range of banking products, services and solutions including bank and deposit accounts, cash management, advice, trading operations, securities trading and wealth management. ETI is listed on several stock exchanges, namely the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos, the Ghana Stock Exchange in Accra and the Regional Stock Exchange in Abidjan.
