Editorial: Inflation rate expected to moderate slightly in July

Buried on page 44 of the 2026 Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review is a disclosure that ought to trouble anyone who pays their taxes honestly. Between 2023 and 2025, wine and spirit imports carried a taxable value of over GH¢5billion.

At the 131st Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting’s outcome, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) kept its benchmark monetary policy rate unchanged at 14 percent.

Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has appointed accomplished banking executive Victor Opoku Brijuu as Group Head, Branch Network Up-Country, strengthening its executive leadership team as the Bank continues its transformation journey.

Ghana’s latest Third-Party Administrator (TPA) for healthcare administration has been launched in Accra. HEEL TPA has been established as a wholly owned subsidiary of KEK Insurance Brokers, the biggest insurance brokerage in Ghana, thus giving it an exceptional professional pedigree. The company has been duly licensed by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), which is mandated to regulate health insurance in the country.

The question history is quietly asking History does not rush. It rarely applauds a government, a boardroom or a generation on the day a decision is made. It waits to see whether today's celebrated choice becomes tomorrow's triumph or tomorrow's regret, asking a question no election result or quarterly report can answer honestly.

Abstract Climate change is increasingly becoming one of the most significant systemic risks faced by the insurance industry of Africa. Across the continent, increased temperatures, unreliable rainfall, flooding, droughts, coastal erosion and extreme weather events have been causing massive economic losses and leading to a huge climate insurance protection gap.

 A couple of weeks ago, the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), the state entity set up by the Government of Ghana to manage the country’s mineral wealth through royalty collection and investment, published its audited financial performance for 2025, and the results are nothing but impressive demonstration of financial resilience by a state institution in recent times.

Parliament has approved nearly US$ 900 million in new external financing, prompting fresh debate over government’s fiscal strategy in the post-IMF era and whether weaker-than-expected domestic revenue mobilisation is forcing a quicker return to external borrowing for financing development priorities while preserving debt sustainability.