
Digitisation as Africa’s great equaliser in financial services
Juliet Etefe
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Digitisation as Africa’s great equaliser in financial services
Deputy Minister for Finance, Thomas Nyarko Ampem, has called for urgent reforms to political financing across Africa, warning that the growing influence of money in politics is undermining democratic integrity, excluding capable leaders, and weakening public trust in democratic institutions.
Africa can no longer measure financial inclusion by the number of bank accounts opened or digital wallets activated, and must instead pursue measurable improvements in people's lives, the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Matilda Asante-Asiedu, has said.
The Rubber Processors Association of Ghana (RUPAG) has defended government's temporary ban on raw rubber exports, insisting the policy is protecting Ghana's industrialisation agenda rather than creating monopolies or depriving farmers and traders of market opportunities.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is expanding its regulatory and supervisory approach beyond the health of individual financial institutions to oversee the broader digital financial ecosystem.
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