Start-ups that have performed well during the implementation of social distancing and lockdown measures might offer favourable opportunities to investors amid the uncertainty, while the changing investment environment is set to add impetus for greater collaboration and renewed risk evaluation.
Those who successfully ride out the storm look set to...
The current set of circumstances create an ecosystem that happens to be the perfect condition for some enterprises to thrive and thrive really well. But that’s like discussing all the benefits of fire while your house is burning to ashes. It wouldn’t be the best time, would it? Nonetheless,...
On 21st March 2019, Ghana passed the Payment Systems and Services Act 2019 (Act 987), as part of initiatives to digitise its economy. The 2024 Cash-lite Agenda by the Bank of Ghana is to:
Foster efficient payments;
Improve financial inclusion; and
Enhance financial innovations.
In an address by Dr. Ernest...
In part 1 of the series, the author laid the canvas to the devastating effect of Covid-19 on the world with emphasis on education specifically university education with reference to Ghana. Ghana’s university education has become one which always runs to the policy table to draw a policy when...
The world’s economy has currently come under intense pressure as a result of the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). This pandemic has affected most economies, of which Ghana is no exception. Governments all over the world, including Ghana, have had to take bold and drastic measures in order to stabilise...
Ghana and the world as a whole have hit hard times. Businesses especially are struggling to stay alive. Termination of employee contracts and default on financial and business-related obligations have quickly become the order of the day. The need to protect businesses from some of the adverse impacts of...
“The coronavirus is creating an additional sense of urgency for financial institutions that may have been on the fence about investing in digital mortgage technology before.”
-----Timothy J. Mayopoulos, President & Board Member of Blend
The novel coronavirus is expected to fundamentally change the way customers interact with their banks, retailers...
A critical question is whether the exceptional expenditures relating to COVID-19 or Corona Virus will be recorded as mere (a) “footnote”; (b) Budget Appendix item; (c) “below-the-line” item; and (d) isolated from so-called “headline” budget deficit and public debt in Ghana’s fiscal records. If this continues, it will be...
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Seasons and times will compel many to chart unknown waters, others out of curiosity and necessity. Regardless of the trigger, having an online presence and brand has become a must-have in this age.
More so, the pandemic has propelled and created a sense of urgency to digitize.
Over...