Kiosk360. The Casablanca Stock Exchange wants to succeed in convincing Moroccan SMEs to go public. This article is a press review of the newspaper Today Le Maroc.
The Casablanca Stock Exchange wants to attract more SMEs. To do this, it has launched a new initiative: The regional meetings of the Casablanca Stock Exchange. Today Morocco, which returns to the subject in its issue of the day, reports that this initiative is already in its 4th stage. “This stopover took place on May 18, in the Casablanca-Settat region where several economic, strategic and operational aspects of financing companies through the IPO (IPO) were discussed”, indicates the daily.
We learn that during this meeting in Casablanca, Tarik Senhaji, Managing Director of the Casablanca Stock Exchange, emphasized the role that the stock market can play in economic growth as a catalyst as defined by the new development model. from Morocco. “The IPO is the ideal solution for financing companies and especially SMEs. Stock market financing is a vector of growth and development. It is a powerful mechanism that allows the company to finance its growth, to perpetuate its existence, to improve its notoriety and to institutionalize its structures”, he assured.
Today Morocco points out that Bassil Zekri, head of the markets department of the Moroccan Capital Markets Authority (AMMC), for his part, addressed the regulatory aspect of the IPO process, particularly on the alternative market dedicated to SMEs .
It should be noted that he went on to mention the various incentive solutions put in place by market infrastructures to promote financing via the capital market, in particular the SME Offer which facilitates SME access to the stock market, plus the tax benefit generated by an IPO transaction.
Note that this meeting also saw the participation of Salmane Belayachi, Director General of the Regional Investment Center (CRI) of the Casablanca-Settat region. For his part, the manager focused on the achievements of the post-reform CRI Casablanca-Settat and its new mindset propelling it towards a performance-oriented and solutions-oriented, modern, digitalized and client-centric administration that provides end-to-end support.
He also highlighted the role of CRI Casablanca-Settat as a catalyst for regional development and support for businesses through its one-stop support service, physical and digital, offering a variety of programs to VSMEs like QIMAM and digital platforms such as CRI Invest and CRI Accompagnement.