On Thursday, March 20, 2025, the BCEAO organized a masterclass marking the launch of its 2025 activity program in partnership with HEC Paris. This virtual meeting drew close to 900 participants from various organizations including lending institutions, microfinance institutions, and WAEMU countries’ economic and financial agencies. Representatives from the central banks of Congo, Comoros, Haiti, Guinea, Mauritania, Madagascar, and the BEAC also took part in the meeting.

The West African Center for Banking Studies and Training (COFEB), in partnership with the Financial Technology Transfer Agency (ATTF) of Luxembourg, organized two training sessions on the subject of "Optimizing Governance and Risk Appetite for a Sustainable Strategy and Successful Business Model over the Long Term" on March 3-4 and March 5-6, 2005.

The West African Center for Banking Studies and Training (COFEB), in partnership with Luxembourg’s financial technology transfer agency (ATTF), organized training on “Banking Risk Management” from February 26 to 28, 2025.

The session was attended by 35 executives from lending institutions, the WAMU Deposit Guarantee and Resolution Fund, and the BCEAO.

On February 17, 2025, COFEB organized an online seminar on “Finance for a Green and Sustainable Transition”. The seminar raised participants’ awareness of the challenges of green finance and introduced them to the fundamentals of the ecological transition, the existing mechanisms, and their economic implications. It was attended by fifty executives from across the WAEMU banking and financial ecosystem.