Ivory Coast
Société Générale looks for a new pathfinder in the corridors of power
The long-serving chairman of the Ivorian subsidiary of France's Société Générale bank, 81-year-old Tiémoko Yadé, told the bank last month that he wanted to stand down. Société Générale, which is Ivory Coast's leading bank, now needs to find a successor with good contacts with the authorities without being too close to them.