If there is any significant intervention that has changed the financial sector and landscape over the last decade in Ghana, it is undoubtedly the emergence of mobile money. This has been made possible through the collaboration of Fintechs, Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and the Banks.
It`s an undeniable fact that,...
The way of running business all over the world is fast changing with the integration of many tools or mediums to create jobs, facilitate efficiency and high performance.
High-performing nations, are utilizing hybrids of flexible work systems to attract highly skilled human capital in the millennial working population, and to...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) reared its ugly head into the whole world commencing from the latter end of the year 2019, and is currently impacting negatively on all aspects of human and business activities.
Operators in the SMEs space in Ghana face a series of challenges year-in-year out. These impediments...
In 1961, two Nobel Prize winning economists - Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller (M&M) - gave us the ‘Dividend Irrelevance Theorem’. The theorem stated that in a competitive capital market dividend policy is irrelevant for the market value of the firm. In other words, the value of the shares...
At a breakfast table in the noisy restaurant of a hotel in Shenzhen, I met Kwame Song Dongshong, now President of the Powerchina International Group Limited.
The company that built the iconic Three Gorges in China, is a behemoth by its own description in 'planning, survey, design, engineering, through...
The recent news of the deportation of some ‘Ghana journalists’ from Australia, the visa racketeering scandal and the subsequent resignations have overshadowed the Commonwealth Games and other benefits therein. For now, we need to forget about the scandal and focus on the positive aspect of the Commonwealth Games and...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta seems be the beating heart of the 'new Ghanaian economy'. He went to parliament and presented a ‘boastful budget’, saying the economy is working.
Ofori Atta said on the floor of parliament: “We have turned the economy around and our policies are yielding results and...
The money market is a segment of the financial market in which wholesale short-term loans and deposits are exchanged, or where short-term financial instruments are traded. Activities on this market span from Treasury bills, Central Bank’s Repurchase Agreements (Repos) and Reverse Repos, Overnight Placements and Borrowings, Commercial Papers, Fixed...