Senegal
Banque Islamique du Sénégal, a fully Islamic bank, is on the Banking Commission's list of approved banks (29 June 2026) and offers named Islamic products on its own website. Sovereign sukuk were issued in 2014 and 2016, and a sukuk by SOGEPA SN in 2022.
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: the National Assembly adopted a new banking law on 11 February 2025. A government publication portal says it includes a specific framework for Islamic banks. We did not confirm its number or promulgation.
- “Les établissements de crédit ne peuvent mettre en place une Branche islamique, sans une autorisation préalable accordée comme en matière d'agrément.”
BCEAO (hosted by Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA) · 2018-03-21 - “aux SFD exerçant une activité de finance islamique, entrées en vigueur le 21 mars 2018”
BCEAO - “Cadre spécifique pour les banques islamiques, incluant des conseils de conformité interne et central”
vie-publique.sn · 2025-02-11 · secondary
Licensed banks and windowsFound
- Banque Islamique du Sénégal (BIS) · full bankIjaraTaalib (savings account, Moudaraba)IMOBIS
- Coris Bank International Sénégal, Coris Baraka (Islamic branch) · windowWadi'a entrepriseMoudarabaMourabaha
- “BANQUE ISLAMIQUE DU SENEGAL (BIS)”
Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA · 2026-06-29 - “CORIS BANK INTERNATIONAL - SENEGAL (CBI-SENEGAL)”
Commission Bancaire de l'UMOA · 2026-06-29 - “Bénéficiez de toutes les opérations financières en conformité avec les principes de la finance Islamique”
Banque Islamique du Sénégal - “La finance islamique est une finance éthique, responsable et non spéculative.”
Coris Bank International Sénégal - “Coris Baraka”
Coris Bank International Sénégal - “Rapport du Conseil de Conformité 2023”
Coris Bank International Baraka
Sukuk issuedFound
- État du Sénégal (fund SUKUK ETAT DU SENEGAL 6,25 % 2014-2018, BOAD Titrisation) · 2014 · FCFA 100 billion (Le Soleil)
- État du Sénégal (fund SUKUK ETAT DU SENEGAL 6% 2016-2026, Taiba Titrisation) · 2016 · FCFA 150 billion (Le Soleil; other press gives FCFA 200 billion, not verified)
- SOGEPA SN (fund SUKUK IJARA SOGEPA SN 2022, Taiba Titrisation; three tranches to 2029, 2032 and 2037) · 2022 (fund approved 13 Apr 2022) · FCFA 330 billion (Le Soleil)
- “SUKUK ETAT DU SENEGAL 6,25 % 2014-2018”
AMF-UMOA · 2014-06-05 - “SUKUK ETAT DU SENEGAL 6% 2016-2026”
AMF-UMOA - “SUKUK IJARA SOGEPA SN 2022”
AMF-UMOA · 2022-04-13 - “le tout premier sukuk souverain de la région pour un montant de 100 milliards de FCfa”
Le Soleil · 2026-02-24 · secondary - “Il s’agissait d’une opération portant sur 150 milliards de FCfa”
Le Soleil · 2026-02-24 · secondary - “a émis avec succès, en avril 2022, une opération de sukuk de 330 milliards de FCfa”
Le Soleil · 2026-02-24 · secondary
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 Senegal.
- “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
- 2025-02-11The National Assembly adopted new banking and microfinance laws that include provisions for Islamic banks and Islamic microfinance (vie-publique.sn). Promulgation not confirmed. source
- 2026-02-24Le Soleil reported that the State plans a fourth sukuk in 2026. No issue, size or dates were confirmed. source
- 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
- 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.
- National banking law: number (01/2025 or 2025-03) and promulgation not confirmed; vie-publique.sn kept as secondary.
- Sukuk sizes come from one newspaper (Le Soleil). The AMF-UMOA register confirms the three funds but shows no amounts. The 2016 size conflicts across press reports (150 vs 200 billion).
- Press reports (not verified) mention a Cour des comptes finding about part of the 2022 SOGEPA sukuk proceeds; needs a primary check before any mention.
- Other Islamic windows and Islamic microfinance institutions in Senegal not listed; no takaful operator confirmed.
- Whether a 2026 sovereign sukuk opened.
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
- cb-umoa.org: Senegal list of approved institutions (29 Jun 2026) and Instruction 002-03-2018 copy
- bis-bank.com (home, Ijara, savings and financing pages)
- senegal.coris.bank and senegal.corisbankbaraka.com (products, compliance reports)
- vie-publique.sn; Le Soleil; Financial Afrik, Senego, Seneweb and Dakaractu used as leads only