- Tunisia: An inter-ministerial council chaired by the Tunisian Head of State adopted early February a series of measures for encouraging national companies to move more towards the stock market. The aim is, more precisely, to: i) encourage privatised companies and those whose capital is held partly by banks to be quoted on the stock exchange and to diversify their financing sources; ii) make leasing companies move more to direct financing, through the financial market; iii) set in place...