GCB Bank Plc has rewarded 56 individuals in its third monthly draw for G Money’s ‘Win Like a Gee’ promotion. The 56, comprising 14 G-Money agents and 42 customers drawn from all parts of Ghana, were rewarded with TV sets, refrigerators, blenders, microwaves, smartphones and laptops for accumulating the highest...
Universal Merchant Bank (UMB), a leading indigenous Ghanaian bank yesterday feted its customers across Ghana on the occasion of its 50th-anniversary celebrations. Customers and patrons of the bank were pleasantly surprised to be welcomed with refreshments as they transacted their business in the bank’s branches. Officials of the bank at...
Absa Group headline earnings more than doubled to R18.6 billion in 2021 (R8 billion in 2020), well in excess of 2019 earnings, as pre-provision profit increased and as the impairments charge reduced substantially. The improvement in part reflects a stronger than expected economic recovery in South Africa, where Absa generates...
The cedi’s woes are set to worsen if current conditions persist, as it is likely to depreciate by more than 20 percent against its major trading counterpart, the dollar, in the next 12 months, RMB - the corporate and investment division of FirstRand Bank - is projecting. This comes as...
Standard Chartered, as part of International Women’s Day celebrations, has launched a business proposition - ‘Lift by Standard Chartered’ - to support women entrepreneurs in the country grow their businesses. Lift by Standard Chartered is an initiative being rolled out by the Bank for Women-Owned Businesses/ Entrepreneurs, to help them...
One of the strongest pillars on which our successes over the past 50 years rest is our people. As one of the oldest banks in Ghana, UMB’s human capital is blessed with staff whose dedication and commitment to the Bank have been nothing but exceptional and exemplary. On the...
As we all know, the ’90s was a critical time for Ghana, and it is no exaggeration to say the  Bank was at the forefront of some of the successes and great milestones the country achieved. The economy underwent a major structural change, with a firm turn toward free-market...
The Chief Executive Officer of UMB, Nana Dwemoh Benneh, has attributed the successes of the bank over the past 50 years to the bank’s uniquely Ghanaian approach to banking that puts the customer at the centre of their operations, products and services. Nana Dwemoh Benneh said this when UMB hosted...
Universal Merchant Bank opened its doors for business in 1972, as the Merchant Bank of Ghana. The bank was established as a specialized policy bank to provide indigenous merchant and wholesale banking capacity to the Ghanaian economy. The Bank actively pursued this mandate, becoming a significant solutions provider for institutions...
The Effiduasi Business Center, of ASA Savings Loans Limited, has donated food items to the Westphalian Children's Home at Oyokov- Effiduasi, in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti region. The Area Manager of ASA, Obeng Alexander, observed that caring for the needy people in the society should be a...

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