CBAO Groupe Attijariwafa Bank

'Banking Company of West Africa') is a bank headquartered in Dakar, Senegal.

With a history going back to the establishment of the Banque du Sénégal in 1853, it was purchased in November 2007 by Morocco-based Attijariwafa Bank.

[1] In 1989, the Senegalese operations of the Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique Occidentale were liquidated into several private institutions, with a majority share of the largest going to the Senegalese-owned Mimran Group.

Attijariwafa bank owned 79.15%, 9% was retained by the government of Senegal, and 12% was held by other private investors.

[8] As part of the Attijariwafa Bank Group, it also opened operations of its own in Burkina Faso in 2011, Niger in 2013, and Benin in 2015.