The business of banking: Focus on lending

  Banking leadership is usually difficult to reduce to a single measure. But PwC Ghana’s latest Banking Survey presents an unusual picture: four of the industry’s major market-share indicators ended 2025 with the same bank, GCB Bank PLC, at the top.

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.

As many as 43 percent of employees are unhappy with their workplaces, while only 26 percent are strong supporters of their organisations.

PETROSOL Platinum Energy has recorded an oversubscription of 78 percent at its maiden GH¢100 million corporate bond issuance, with bids totalling GH¢178.07 against the targeted amount.

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has identified a former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor and four others as key persons of interest in its investigation into the Ghanaian dimension of a bribery case that led to the conviction of a former Tema Oil Refinery executive in the United States.

African countries should develop their own debt-management and development-financing institutions instead of relying on systems designed outside the continent, the head of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) has said.

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kwame Ntow Amoah, has assured that the national oil company (NOC) remains on course to commence its planned fourth-quarter drilling programme in the Voltaian Basin despite repeated shifts in the timeline.