Ivory Coast banks' assets rise 25 pct in 2015

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The assets of Ivory Coast's banking sector rose 25 percent in 2015 to 7.25 trillion CFA francs ($12.30 billion), helped by the the West African country's robust economic growth, a trade body said on Monday. "At the end of December 2015, global resources increased by 25 percent ... adding more than 1.457 billion in supplementary deposits in comparison with Dec. 2014," the Professional Association of Banks and Financial Institutions said in a statement. The Ivory Coast banking