Akuapem Rural Bank PLC, with its head office at Mamfe, in the Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern Region has held a Durbar for about 1,400 customers in its Microfinance program.
The durbar which was held in two separate occasions in two at Nsawam and Mamfe was on the Theme...
The Managing Director of ARB Apex Bank PLC, Mr. Alex Kwasi Awuah, has urged rural banks to support the initiative by government for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country.
According to him, there is no economy in the world that has developed without prioritising the activities of SMEs;...
as it partners YIN to launch programmes for youths
The future and growth of the capital market and economy at large, according to the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and the Young Investors Network (YIN), require stepping-up financial education for youths in the country.
To this end, the duo has...
As a testament of its determination to support Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to scale up and run profitable ventures, the Management of Ghana Exim Bank, GEXIM, on Tuesday 5th July 2022 received the African Union Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (AU SME) award for "The Best Market...
As per the 2021 financial performance review, the Capital Rural Bank at Abesim, near Sunyani in the Bono Region has made satisfactory strides toward growth.
This comes on a backdrop of years of operational challenges largely occasioned by externalities such as the repercussion of financial sector clean-up and the impact...
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has been singled out for applause by the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Bank of Ghana (BoG), and Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) for its comprehensive cocktail of financial facilities for businesses and infrastructure development projects in Ghana and on the continent.
According to the state...
Ecobank is a headline sponsor of this year’s Boma of Africa event marking the African Union’s (AU) “Africa Integration Day”.Thissponsorship signifies Ecobank’s support for the AfCFTA Hub initiative.
The Africa Integration Day concept was instituted by the AU Heads of State to herald a new phase of pan-Africanism defined by...
At 2030, I would say that you probably have two billion people that’ll be using day-to-day banking services, independent of banks.
Research by Statista (2020) indicates that almost 2 billion people globally actively used online banking, and this trend is projected to rise. In fact, by 2024, there will...
Considering its vantage position on the financial services delivery value chain, the Savings and Loans (S&Ls) sub-category is best placed to take advantage of a regulated crowdfunding framework to leapfrog growing competition for its market segment, Head of Fintech and Innovation at the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Kwame Oppong,...
The global pandemic changed the course of economies worldwide, negatively impacting human survival. Hard-hit sectors included health, employment, education, and businesses. COVID-19's impact did not spare small and medium-scale industries. According to McKinsey.com, between February 2020 and April 2021, 70 to 80 percent of SMEs across 32 countries lost...
