Despite surge in inflation in recent months prompting expectations of another increase in policy rate, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana has, in an unexpected turn of events, pressed the pause button on the rate increment.
The MPC in its 107th meeting decided to maintain the...
as President Akufo-Addo launches ORC
The newly launched Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) is set to delete close to 500,000 companies from its database for not renewing their existence following the expiration of their registration, the Registrar of Companies, Jemima M. Oware, disclosed.
The exercise, Ms. Oware explained,...
Leading research and public policy think tank, CUTS International, Accra, is urging the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation to extend the mobile SIM Card registration deadline to the end of the year as the majority of Ghanaians have logistical challenges in obtaining NIA cards and using the same to...
Ghana’s general insurers tend to rely more on investment income than on actual risk underwriting income for their profits. Elliot WILLIAMS and Toma IMIRHE examine how this worked – and in a few cases did not work – for the non-life insurance companies in 2021
In 2021, only 16 out...
and those who pay the most for doing so
In 2021, the ability of general (non-life) insurance companies to retain the risks they had underwritten on their own books became a crucial issue as the industry regulator instructed them to increase their capital in order to keep more of...
Mobile communication technologies have evolved over the years from 1st generation to the currently ready-to-market 5th generation cellular technologies. In this evolution, there is a shift from creating different flavours at a generational level to promoting a single standard to be adopted by the whole world.
There were the first-generation...
With less than two weeks to the end of the mandatory SIM card registration exercise, MTN Ghana is enhancing its strategies to ensure that the millions of unregistered subscribers are registered before the July 31, 2022 deadline.
From now to July 31, 2022, MTN will be sending urgent messages to...
Set on the day on which the first In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) conceived baby was born – July 25, 1978 – World IVF Day marks the importance of the IVF technique in infertility treatment.
A subsidiary of Medifem Multi-Specialist Hospital, the Accra Fertility Centre (AFC), having championed infertility treatment for...
The Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC) and the Mastercard Foundation have held a three-day Bootcamp in Kumasi for 108 aspiring young women entrepreneurs within the Agri-MSME sector.
The KIC Women’s Bootcamp is part of the capacity building programme under the KIC and Mastercard Foundation’s multi-year partnership to train the next generation...
EDC Investments Limited has expressed its commitment to developing and providing tailor-made financial and investments products to Ghanaians. According to the Managing Director of EDC Investments Limited, Paul Mante, married couples can have a blissful union without financial stress.
Delivering his remarks at a courtesy call paid to his firm...