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Casablanca Finance City has leapt up 9 places in the new ranking of the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) released on Monday in Busan, Korea. According to this new ranking, unveiled in the seventeenth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 17) which rates 82 financial centers, Casablanca Finance City has moved up from the 51st rank […]
The US Automaker Ford became last week the 60th international company to establish regional headquarters in Casablanca Finance City. Ford which has just obtained the CFC status will base the African regional headquarters of its branch, the Ford International Business, in Casablanca Finance City wherefrom it will manage its operations across the continent. The CFC […]
Exploring innovative financing mechanisms to boost economic development in Africa, which is recording noteworthy growth rates in a rather gloomy international economic and financial environment, is the main purpose of the 9th African Development Forum currently held in Marrakech, Morocco. The forum, held on the theme “Innovative financing for Africa’s transformation,” seeks to enhance Africa’s […]
Casablanca Finance City or CFC has won 11 positions in the new ranking of the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) released on Monday at a ceremony hosted by the CFC authority in Casablanca. With this new ranking of 83 financial centers, Casablanca Finance City has moved up from the 62nd place it held last March, […]
Morocco which boasts a genuine growth potential in addition to its political and economic stability can serve as a launching pad for U.S. investors wishing to operate in sub-Saharan Africa. The statement was repeated as a leitmotiv by several US and Moroccan officials and economic operators who were attending the second US-Morocco business development conference […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) have signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding on the training of skilled professionals in financial services industry that will promote professionalism and professional standards in this industry in Morocco and throughout the region. The MoU also heralds the launch of two new […]
When in January 2013 the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, attended the 5th international conference of finance ministers and central banks governors of the Maghreb countries, she talked about the necessity of boosting growth and employment within the region, while also reminding the distinguished audience that political issues still constitute a […]
The Casablanca Finance City, an emerging regional financial hub in Africa, has partnered with the CityUK to develop of the securities and derivative markets, boost education and training in the financial services sector and build an insurance and reinsurance sector that will benefit the wider African market. Chris Cummings, chief executive officer of TheCityUK, said: […]