sentences:  BOA is a large financial services provider in eighteen sub-Saharan countries.As of December 2016, the group's total assets were valued at €7.8 billion (US$7.9 billion) In addition to its fourteen commercial banks, the group also includes a finance company, a housing bank, a leasing company, one brokerage firm and two investment firms, as well as a management company and a representative office in Paris.The maiden bank of the BOA Group, BOA Mali, was established in late 1982, in Bamako, Mali, by local businesspeople.