Bank of Africa

Bank of Africa Group
Company typePrivate
CSE: 1100
IndustryFinancial services
Founded1959
HeadquartersCasablanca, Morocco
Key people
Othman Benjelloun
Group Chairman & CEO
ProductsCredit cards, consumer banking, corporate banking, finance and insurance, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking, private equity, savings, securities, asset management, wealth management
Increase 76 million (2017)
Total assetsIncrease 9.406 billion (2021)
Total equityIncrease 746 million (2016)
Number of employees
Increase 5655 (2016)
Websitebankofafrica.ma
A Bank of Africa billboard in Niger, 2019

Bank of Africa (BOA) is a Moroccan banking conglomerate headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, with banking operations in Morocco and eighteen other African countries. Its main predecessor entities started in 1959 in Morocco and in 1982 in Mali. Until 2020 the group parent entity was known as the Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur (BMCE, (Arabic: البنك المغربي للتجارة الخارجية; "Moroccan Bank of Foreign Trade"), a name that lingers as "BMCE Group" in the BOA brand identity as of 2022. BOA has offices in Europe, Asia, France, Spain, United Kingdom, China, Italy, Germany, UAE, Belgium, Canada and Netherlands.[1]

  1. ^ Bank of Africa (12 September 2022). "Bank of Arica: Contact Us - Headquarters". Bank of Africa. Casablanca, Morocco. Retrieved 12 September 2022.