The Group consisting of banks and other financial services companies in Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Senegal and Cameroon.

The Group is a large financial services provider in West Africa and Central Africa, with emphasis on retail banking, but offering a full range of financial products.

The Group's shareholder's equity was in excess of US$122 million, as of October 2010[update].

In 1997, the Group acquired the assets of Barclays Bank in Côte d'Ivoire, keeping the new acquisition separate, but renaming it COBACI.

[3] In 2004, a new subsidiary under the name GIE was established to handle the Group's computing and information technology needs.