Digital innovation is transforming how businesses operate and how people work. Your bank will need to embrace digital capabilities in order to revolutionize its business. Achieving digital innovation will require your bank to create immersive digital customer experiences, change the way employees work and rethink your business models. Usually, when...
The B&FT can authoritatively report that, the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Johnson P. Asiama, has resigned from his position barely two years after being appointed to the position. Information available to the B&FT indicates that, the now former governor of the central bank tendered in...
More than 200,000 businesses are expected to soon access the GHc600 million stimulus package called COVID-19 Alleviation Programme (CAP), the Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, has announced. The businesses, mostly Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, which have been worst affected by the...
The Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, Yolanda Cuba, has scored government 8/10 for its stabilizing the economy with almost all the macroeconomic indicators moving in the right direction. Ms. Cuba speaking at post-budget forum organized by KPMG in Accra said government deserves commendation for the way it has steered...
Posts 23.3% revenue increase in 2017 Data revenue increases by 50.6% 6.5 million active data subscribers Active Mobile Money subscribers hit 7.1 million In fulfillment of the terms of its 4G licence, MTN Ghana - the largest telecommunications company in the country with 15.7million subscribers - has said...
Government has signed an agreement with Doha-based Qatar Airways for the Middle Eastern airline to start scheduled flights between Accra and Doha, while Air Namibia - which pulled out of the country some four years ago - has started discussions to re-start operations this year. Passengers travelling to the Middle...
Cryptocurrencies have been on a surging run this year but its gaining more grounds. After Eight years with bad names and initial scam reviews, it has gotten stronger and caught the attention of many investment firms as well as corporate entities like Microsoft. With traditional ways of transferring money across...
MTN Ghana, the largest telecommunications company in the country with about 15million subscribers, have submitted its prospectus to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) to float 35 percent of its shares on the local bourse. “Let me say MTN have submitted their prospectus to...
  Outspoken financial analyst Kenneth Thompson is predicting scarcity of cash in the economy next year, despite the optimistic tone of government in the 2018 budget. Alluding to the budget’s allocation of more than 80 percent of revenue to the payment of salaries and interest on loans, Mr. Thompson noted that...
President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB), Mrs. Patricia Sappor has urged banking professionals in Ghana to begin discussions on Crypto Currency. According to her Crypto Currency is the next big thing happening, noting that as at November 2017, Crypto Currencies (digital Currencies eg. Bitcoin) have reached a record...