According to Paul de Leusse, Deputy Managing Director, in charge of mobile financial services, the new structure launches an innovative offer by offering credits from 5000 CFA francs and aims to reach 10 million customers over 5 years.

"This is a very nice step that I am proud to formalize today with you," said Paul de Leusse, who participated in the launch by videoconference of Orange Bank Africa. For him, credit and savings are two indispensable factors for economic development.

Therefore, he says, their availability on Orange Money will go a step further to address the problem of excluding an immense majority of the population from traditional banking services.

He says that with Orange Bank Africa, in synergy with Orange Money, they facilitate access to banking services for as many people as possible in order to improve their daily lives, through simple services and secure transactions.

According to Mr. De Leusse, "today is a very important milestone for Orange's financial services with the launch of Orange Bank Africa in Côte d'Ivoire."

Because, he explains, Orange wants, in fact, to deploy in its countries of presence with a banking offer.

In this sense, he continues, we did it in France with Orange Bank, in Spain, we are now doing it in Côte d'Ivoire and we obviously want to capitalize on the great success of Orange Money in Africa.

"To succeed in this project we wanted to give ourselves all the assets. Hence this partnership with the insurance and banking group Nsia," says De Leusse.

He adds that Orange is deploying in the banking sector and the first reason is that their customers ask them and that therefore, they want, in this sense, to make the bank differently.

"That is to say, we are launching an innovative offer by offering credits from 5000 CFA francs, an instant offer (our customers will be able to have a credit in a few seconds on the mobile) and above all we want to launch a bank that is for everyone including unbanked people", explains the Dga of Orange.

"We have a very strong ambition for this bank. In this sense, we aim to reach 10 million customers within 5 years. We aim to gradually deploy in the sub-region in full compliance with the rules laid down by the Bceao but also we want to set up a large bank in Côte d'Ivoire and WAEMU," insists Paul De Leusse. Who finally says "thank the Bceao who trusted us for this project and with whom we moved forward hand in hand".