Togo

Active marketChecked 2026-11-14 · confidence medium

Coris Bank International Togo is on the Banking Commission's list of approved banks (29 June 2026), and its Islamic branch, CBI Baraka Togo, offers named Islamic products on its own website. The State issued a FCFA 150 billion sukuk in 2016 that runs to 2026.

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 Togo had passed the microfinance part of the reform in March 2026 but not yet the banking part.

  • “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
  • “la transposition du volet bancaire proprement dit n’apparaît pas encore finalisée à la date de rédaction du présent article”
    Financial Afrik · 2026-08-09 · secondary
Licensed banks and windowsFound
Sukuk issuedFound
  • République Togolaise (fund SUKUK ETAT DU TOGO 6,5 % 2016-2026, Taiba Titrisation) · 2016 · FCFA 150 billion (information note)
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 Togo.

  • “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. Togo's 2016 sukuk was approved by the regional regulator (then CREPMF) as a securitisation fund, before the 2022 regulation.

  • “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. 2026-07-31The final instalment of the 2016-2026 sovereign sukuk (FCFA 10.957 billion) was scheduled for 17 Aug 2026 (republicoftogo.com). The payment itself was not confirmed. source
  2. 2026-03The National Assembly adopted the bill carrying over the microfinance part of the WAEMU reform; the banking part was not finalised (Financial Afrik). source
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  • Whether the final sukuk payment on 17 Aug 2026 was made.
  • Whether any Islamic microfinance institution or takaful operator is licensed in Togo.
  • The sukuk information note was read on a third-party host (sukuk.com), not on a government or AMF-UMOA site.
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
  • togo.corisbankbaraka.com (product, certificate, news and contact pages) and togo.coris.bank
  • Togo sukuk information note (sukuk.com copy)
  • republicoftogo.com