The COVID-19 crisis has revealed banks to be not part of the problem for a change, but part of the solution. They have so far proven to be resilient, mostly as a result of the stricter capital and liquidity requirements imposed on them following the 2007-09 global financial crisis....
The world is currently facing a global health crisis which has impacted the way of life of most economies. The coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic has shown us the need to rebuild our economies for the provision of jobs that is secure, resilient, and safe. It is seemingly true that some...
As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries found themselves in a mad scramble for medical supplies – masks, ventilators, protective garments. More often than not, it was to China that they had to turn.
By the time the crisis erupted, China had become...
Cashew is an economic tree that produces apples and nuts. Cashew is largely cultivated in the forest-savanna transitional zone, covering parts of Ashanti, Bono, Bono East and Savanna Regions.
Over the years, cashew farming in the country has seen many interventions, aimed at increasing production and productivity. Some of the...
Absa Bank Ghana, the first bank to introduce ATM Cash Deposit and many other digital innovations in the financial sector, is enabling its customers to continue banking at the comfort of their homes and offices, through its array of secure digital services. Demonstrating the Absa Africanacity attitude of finding...
“Oh, how the Corona virus has come to elevate political power to unusual echelons of enjoyment! For whenever I hear the preliminary commentary “Fellow Ghanaians, good evening…”I know that we are about to be launched gallantly into some straights of utopia, where the enumeration, calibration and veneration of the...
The novel Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social distancing protocols are driving banks to accelerate their digital transformation strategies, with laggards likely to suffer rapid franchise deterioration as customer preferences and competition evolves more rapidly across emerging markets.
In Ghana, the situation is not different and as an industry leader...
If ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, then the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced many around the world to rethink their daily lives from work to school to entertainment. In response to travel bans, school closures, and recommendations on social gatherings, protocols and social distancing which are all targeted...