Business Development Manager (BDM) at Fidelity Securities Limited (FSL) - the asset management arm of Fidelity Bank - Sophia Kafui Teye, has admonished workers in the country, particularly young professionals, to do away with a sense of financial security that is built on highly mutable factors such as current...
A Representative of the Minority in Ghana’s Parliament has kicked against the replacement of GCNet and West Blue’s systems with the UNIPASS technology by Ghana Link. Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament of the Ellembelle Constituency questioned the legitimacy of the processes leading to contract the new company...
With output having collapsed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are wondering how far monetary policy can be stretched to support the economy. For the US Federal Reserve, negative interest rates appear to represent an effective limit, not because such a policy is technically unfeasible, but because...
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has denied allegations that his recklessness has contributed to the economic challenges facing the economy. Mr Ofori-Atta said the claim was false as he had complied with every laid down regulation in the exercise of his role as Finance Minister. Instead, he said it was...
 A raft of permanent measures aimed at enhancing revenue generation, and subsequently cementing fiscal consolidation, should inject an estimated GH¢8billion into the economy next year, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has indicated. This is 1.35 percent of the revised Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figure of GH¢592billion in 2022. This, the minister said,...
According to NFX, leading a startup is 10 times tougher than leading a standard company. This is because of the uncertainties that come along with building a startup and the need to often change direction. NFX says that “Leadership is harder to master than management. It takes soft skills and...
Amid the current economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and Domestic Debt Exchange Programme, one key solution for supporting growth of the private sector is resetting interest rates in the economy,  Managing Director-Stanbic Investment Management Services, Kwabena Boamah, has advocated. Speaking during a panel discussion at The Money...
Ghanaian migrants’ remittances in 2019 stood at US$3.7billion, which equals 5.5 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA- 2020) has shown. According to the report, currently some 970,000 Ghanaians live and work outside their home...
Ecobank, last Friday, organised a regional webinar to strengthen its stand against Non-Communicable Diseases, focusing on Diabetes, across 5 countries within West Africa, covering; Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The regional webinar, which formed part of the bank’s program of activities to commemorate the 2020 Ecobank Day, brought...
Obtaining a second source of income all starts with an idea, one of the most potent forms of power that exists. I learnt from a TED-Ed that “power is the ability to have others do what you would have them do”. Is that not what all businesspeople want: the ability...