GIZ Ghana, through the Financial Systems Development (FSD) component of the Programme for Sustainable Economic Development (PSED), has donated digital equipment to the Ghana Cooperative Susu Collectors Association (GCSCA). The donation forms part of a strategy to equip industry players with tools that meet the demands brought about by the...
The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA), the trade association for all insurance companies licensed to operate in Ghana will join the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s “International Insurance Awareness Day” from Monday June 28. In line with this celebration, GIA intends to organize a webinar on the theme...
The Ghana Financial Intermediation (GFI) Awards has honoured the CEO and Group Chairman of the Afro-Arab Group of Companies, Alhaji Salamu Amadu, with a top personality award as an Outstanding Young Financial Intermediation CEO, at the maiden edition of the awards initiative. The award scheme, which was organized by the...
Absa Bank Ghana has announced a partnership with MoneyGram, a major reliable and trusted brand in the remittance industry, to provide remittance services to Ghanaians. Through the partnership, both customers and non-customers of Absa Bank can receive their inbound remittances from any of the bank's branch networks. Absa Bank's partnership...
Rather than seeing blockchain technology as an opposition, the banking industry needs to start exploring how it can incorporate it into their operations, said Kwame A.A. Opoku, Chief Executive at Reset Global People. Speaking at a conference organised by Republic Bank and the Business and Financial Times (B&FT) in Accra...
…says gov’t assured it will not be businesses as usual Country Director of the World Bank, Pierre Frank Laporte, has revealed that the Bretton Woods institution agreed to support establishing the new Development Bank Ghana (DBG) because government agreed to conditions it spelled out in ensuring the bank becomes...
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta is backing the recent announcement by the finance ministers of the G7 countries who are pushing for a global corporate minimum tax of 15 percent. This would require companies from the G7 countries to pay at least a 15 percent rate in each...
Managing Director of Republic Bank Ghana, Farid Antar, has said the bank’s digital adaptability and transformation to doing business online is not yet complete, as digitalisation is a work in progress and an ever-evolving phenomenon. According to him, digitisation is not an event or a project that can be executed...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planning to electronically pay all its farmers to stimulate the digital economy and also ensure the security of funds, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer at COCOBOD, Dr. Emmanuel Opoku has said. The move which is expected to be piloted at the coming cocoa season...
...looks to brighter 2021 GOIL Company Limited will pay shareholders GH¢0.045 per share as dividends for 2020, despite the economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, its Board Chairman, Kwamena Bartels, has disclosed. Addressing shareholders at the company’s 52nd Annual General Meeting (AGM) held virtually, Mr. Bartels noted that GOIL’s growth...