Mali

Active marketChecked 2026-11-14 · confidence medium

Coris Bank International Mali is on the Banking Commission's list of approved banks (29 June 2026), and its Islamic branch, CBI Baraka Mali, launched on 3 May 2018, offers named Islamic products on its own website. Regional BCEAO rules allow Islamic banks and Islamic branches.

Five checks

Banking rulesFound

Regional rules apply. BCEAO Instruction n°002-03-2018, in force since 21 March 2018, sets the conditions for banks in the eight WAEMU states to do Islamic finance, either as a fully Islamic bank or through an authorised Islamic branch (a window). Companion BCEAO instructions cover microfinance institutions and the technical features of Islamic finance operations. The June 2023 WAEMU uniform banking law has a title on Islamic finance, but it applies in a state only after that state passes it as a national law. In English, the 2018 instruction says it sets the conditions for Islamic finance activities in the West African Monetary Union. National: Financial Afrik reported in August 2026 that Mali had not completed passing the 2023 uniform law, so the 2018 BCEAO instructions remain the working rules.

  • “La présente instruction a pour objet de définir les conditions d'exercice des activités de finance islamique dans l'Union Monétaire Ouest Africaine.”
    BCEAO · 2018-03-21
  • “aux SFD exerçant une activité de finance islamique, entrées en vigueur le 21 mars 2018”
    BCEAO
  • “exercer l'activité bancaire islamique soit à titre exclusif, soit à travers une branche dédiée.”
    Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA / BCEAO · 2023-06
  • “Aucune transposition aboutie et définitivement consolidée n’a pu être recensée, à ce jour, au Mali, au Niger ni en Guinée-Bissau.”
    Financial Afrik · 2026-08-09 · secondary
Licensed banks and windowsFound
Sukuk issuedFound
  • État du Mali (fund SUKUK ETAT DU MALI 6,25 % 2018-2025, Taiba Titrisation) · 2018 (fund approved 29 Jan 2018) · not stated in the AMF-UMOA register
  • “SUKUK ETAT DU MALI 6,25 % 2018-2025”
    AMF-UMOA · 2018-01-29
Takaful (non-interest insurance)Found

Regional rules apply. CIMA, the insurance regulator for its member states, says its Council of Ministers met on 10 October 2019 and adopted a regulation adding a book on takaful insurance to the CIMA insurance code. Financial Afrik gives its number as Règlement n°003/CIMA/PCMA/PCE/2019. We did not read the regulation text itself. We found no takaful operator licensed in Mali.

  • “relating to book 9 on the provisions applicable to takaful insurance.”
    CIMA · 2019-10-10
  • “le Conseil des Ministres a adopté le 10 octobre 2019, le Règlement N°003/CIMA/PCMA/PCE/2019 portant réglementation des opérations d’assurance Takaful”
    Financial Afrik · 2019-11-07 · secondary
Capital market rulesFound

Regional rules apply; there is no separate national securities regulator. UEMOA Regulation n°10/2022/CM/UEMOA covers Islamic financial securities, sukuk issuing companies and sukuk issuing funds. The BCEAO says the UEMOA Council of Ministers adopted the draft at its session of 30 September 2022, and it was published in the UEMOA Official Bulletin n°115 (fourth quarter 2022). The regional market regulator, AMF-UMOA, lists Instruction n°69/2023 on Islamic collective investment schemes, Instruction n°70/2023 on Islamic finance compliance councils for market actors and issuers, and Decision n°CM/15/09/2022 amending the market's General Regulation for Islamic capital markets. Its fund register shows the FCP Tawfir Halal fund (NSIA Asset Management) approved on 7 June 2024; Droit Médias Finance describes it as the second fund approved as compliant with Islamic finance rules on the regional market.

  • “un projet de Règlement relatif aux titres financiers islamiques, aux Sociétés d'Emission de Sukuk Autogérées et aux Fonds d'Emission de Sukuk dans l'UEMOA”
    BCEAO · 2022-09-30
  • “REGLEMENT N° 10/2022/CM/UEMOA RELATIF AUX TITRES FINANCIERS ISLAMIQUES”
    UEMOA · 2022
  • “DECISION N°CM/15/09/2022 - PORTANT MODIFICATION DU REGLEMENT GENERAL RELATIF A L'ORGANISATION, AU FONCTIONNEMENT ET AU CONTROLE DU MARCHE FINANCIER REGIONAL - CAPITAUX ISLAMIQUES”
    AMF-UMOA · 2022-09-15
  • “INSTRUCTION N° 69 /AMF-UMOA/2023 RELATIVE AUX ORGANISMES DE PLACEMENT COLLECTIF CONFORMES AUX PRINCIPES ET RÈGLES DE LA FINANCE ISLAMIQUE”
    AMF-UMOA · 2023
  • “INSTRUCTION N° 70 /AMF-UMOA/2023 RELATIVE AUX CONSEILS DE CONFORMITE AUX PRINCIPES ET RÈGLES DE LA FINANCE ISLAMIQUE POUR LES ACTEURS ET EMETTEURS”
    AMF-UMOA · 2023
  • “FCP TAWFIR HALAL”
    AMF-UMOA · 2024-06-07
  • “La décision d'agrément N°AMF UMOA /2024/142 portant agrément du Fonds Commun de Placement TAWFIR HALAL”
    Droit Médias Finance · secondary

Recent developments

  1. 2026-07BCEAO annual report 2025: 21 Islamic finance institutions held an approval in the WAEMU at end-December 2025, and four microfinance institutions were approved for Islamic finance in 2025 (two of them exclusively). The report gives no country breakdown. source
  2. 2024-06-07AMF-UMOA approved the FCP Tawfir Halal fund of NSIA Asset Management. Droit Médias Finance describes it as the second Islamic fund approved on the regional market. source

Still open

Points we could not confirm at source yet.

  • No regulator list names authorised Islamic branches. The Banking Commission list names the parent bank only.
  • Mali sukuk: the AMF-UMOA register shows the 2018-2025 fund as inactive; the amount raised was not confirmed.
  • Whether any Islamic microfinance institution or takaful operator is licensed in Mali.
Where we searched
  • bceao.int: Instruction 002-03-2018 PDF, FAQ on Islamic finance texts, 30 Sep 2022 Council of Ministers communiqué, 2025 annual report (all downloaded and searched)
  • cb-umoa.org: 2023 uniform banking law PDF, country lists of approved institutions updated 29 Jun 2026, Banking Commission annual report 2024 (no per-country list of Islamic branches in it)
  • amf-umoa.org: public data feeds behind the instructions, decisions and approved-fund pages (the HTML pages load these by script); fund documents could not be downloaded
  • uemoa.int: Bulletin Officiel n°115 (text layer searched for Regulation 10/2022)
  • cima-afrique.org: 2019 Council of Ministers press release and member states page
  • brvm.org: bond price list
  • mali.corisbankbaraka.com (product, launch, compliance report, certificate and contact pages) and mali.coris.bank
  • BRVM bond list: no Mali sukuk line in Nov 2026
  • Web search for a Mali sovereign sukuk (only conventional WAEMU bond auctions found)