Political, Economic, and Technological (PET) Analysis

State Housing Company Limited (SHC) and Absa Bank Ghana have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at expanding access to mortgage financing and helping address Ghana's estimated housing deficit of 1.8 million units.

Ghana’s investment priorities and opportunities across key sectors will be presented to international business audiences in a new series of Global Platform videos featuring Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama and senior public- and private-sector leaders.

Chairman of PSB Bank Petr Fradkov in an interview with RBC discusses what is happening in one of the most closed sectors of the economy — cross-border payments and how the A7 international payment system operates, which essentially lacks international payments.   “This is essentially a tool of ‘new warfare’”

Voltic (GH) Limited, a subsidiary of the Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company (ECCBC) has commissioned a newly constructed mechanized borehole with an installed multi-step purification system for the Gomoa Osedze community in the Gomoa West Constituency.

Ghana’s growing financial strength among its diaspora has yet to translate into broad-based absorption of the country’s expanding housing stock, with industry data indicating that the domestic market remains the dominant source of demand for homes.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have inaugurated a Virtual Asset Coordination Committee to strengthen oversight of Ghana’s fast-growing digital asset market, as regulators prepare to fully operationalise the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act by 2027.

Ghana’s economic recovery from its 2022 crisis is real and measurable but remains structurally incomplete and vulnerable to reversal unless the country strengthens revenue mobilisation,

Gold Fields has offered Ghana increased value-sharing from its Tarkwa mine as it seeks a long-term renewal of the operation’s leases, opening a potentially significant new phase in negotiations with government ahead of their expiry in April 2027.