As part of the launch of the 2021 edition of the programme to support and strengthen the managerial capacities of executives from the Union’s credit institutions, COFEB, in partnership with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris), organised a high-level international webinar on the theme of “The challenges of digital transformation for African banks ” on 25 May 2021. The session was chaired by Governor Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, in the presence of Mr Cheikh El Kébir Moulaye Taher and Mr Younoussa Imani, Governor of the Central Bank of Mauritania and Governor of the Central Bank of the Comoros, respectively. Participants at the session included senior officials of African central banks (BEAC, Mauritania, Comoros, Morocco and Burundi), professional associations of banks and financial institutions of the Union, community organisations, regional financial institutions and bank executives