PwC warns of bad loans time bomb
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PwC warns of bad loans time bomb

Kingsley Webora TANKEH
Published July 13, 20263 min read

The banking industry has an unhealthy concentration of bad loans in two sectors of the economy, where it channelled a bulk of its credit in 2025, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana has revealed, just as the fall in interest rates pares the profit cushion that once absorbed such losses.

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