Under good auspices, the administrators of the BDM, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani, Former Prime Minister, Chairman of the Board of Directors, the administrators of the first financial institution of Mali held this Saturday, March 26, 2022 at its headquarters the 77th session of its Board of Directors. It was in the presence of Mr. Ibrahima N’Diaye, Managing Director of BDM and the Deputy Directors General of BDM.
The work was mainly devoted to the review and adoption of the individual and consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2021.
It appears that, despite the particularly difficult economic context, the first banking group achieved particular performance compared to the year 2020, with a total balance sheet of more FCFA 1800 billion (+19.48), a net banking income of nearly FCFA74 billion (+17.19).
The Board of Directors therefore sent its heartfelt congratulations to the general management and all the staff of the banking group for the performance achieved which further consolidates the position of the BDM group on the regional banking market.
The Board of Directors urged them to preserve in the effort to continue to hoist the BDM group to the forefront of WAMU banking groups.
Speaking for the occasion, the general secretary of the trade union committee, Mr. Papa Sadio Traoré, in his words of welcome firstly recalled that the fall in economic activity due to the pandemic, the country risk, the slowdown in international trade, the boycott of the cotton campaign strongly marked the 2021 financial year.
”The brave workers of the BDM, oh so resilient, responded to the call of duty under the leadership of Mr. Brehima Amadou Haïdara, outgoing Managing Director, in enjoyment of his retirement rights. We would like to thank him for the loyal services rendered and to wish him good luck,” he added. He also took the opportunity to congratulate Mr. Ibrahima N’Diaye and Bekkai Traoré, respectively, incoming Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director, great financiers before the eternal. ”We bring them the greetings and the major support of our comrades of work, joy, dialogue and combat”, he indicates.
As a responsible union, continues the secretary general, “we will submit to you, next month, our awareness program for our comrades in deep Mali. These joint missions (Union-HR) aim to listen, to understand, to reassure, and to help the mainspring in their tireless efforts for a stronger and bigger BDM and to develop their sense of belonging”. As such, during the second quarter, the union committee will submit its union training plan.
And during the third quarter, “we will do a study on the conditions for granting loans to local banking staff. The recommendations will be forwarded to you,” said Mr. Traoré.
The development and implementation of a Career Plan so desired by the Syndicate Committee remains a dream, according to him. ”We are counting enormously on you to help us make this dream a reality beyond our scope of consolidation, for the benefit of the proletariat, we have heard of the BDM SA”, according to the secretary general.
Aware of the rise in power of our Armed Forces, indicates the general secretary of the union committee, the staff has embarked on a fundraising campaign in favor of orphans, widows and displaced persons. ”This surge of solidarity will be to the credit of our social responsibility”.
Moreover, in 2022, the fields are blooming with hope and hearts are vibrating with confidence (cotton production, post-Covid recovery, mitigation of country risk, minimization of the cost of risk, recovery of provisions). All this, backed by the Advancement-Reclassification Project and the Career Plan, would motivate more, he hoped.
In his opening address, the Chairman of the Board of Directors indicated that “with the multidimensional crisis that we have been experiencing since 2012, to which was added the Covid 19 pandemic, then the measures very recently taken following of the 2020 coup d’etat by ECOWAS and UEMOA once morest our country have shaken our economy a lot. But thanks to the efforts of the various bodies of this institution, their capacity for prevention, we are here to hold this session under good auspices”.
He also asks the administrators of the bank to double their efforts because the bank still needs them. ”The workers have made the BDM their own company”, welcomes the PCA.
It should also be recalled that this council was preceded by the holding of board of directors sessions for the subsidiaries of Côte d’Ivoire (BDU-CI) on February 15, Burkina Faso (BDU-BF) on March 17 and Guinea Bissau (BDU-SA), March 18, 2022. The three entities have all achieved very appreciable results.
Brehima DIALLO
Source: September 22