Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited has announced a 100% waiver on account to wallet transaction fees for its customers from October 26-30, 2020.
This comes on the back of Customer Service Week, which is commemorated globally from October 5-9, and the bank’s bid to dedicate the whole month of October...
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana.
Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the...
Contrary to the impression that persons living in rural communities would be more inclined to use mobile money services due to their reliance on relations, acquaintances and friends in urban areas for remittances, a report - the ‘Household Survey on Information Communications Technology (ICT)’ - has revealed the contrary.
Due...
Hollard Ghana with subsidiaries, Hollard Insurance and Hollard Life Assurance has announced October’s edition of H.Insured: All About Insurance Webinar Series dubbed, "Putting Customers First: Making Claims and Complaints,” slated for Wednesday, October 28, 2020, at 6 pm via Zoom.
Yvonne McCarthy, President, West Africa Association of Customer Service Professionals;...
Some cocoa farmers in the Wassa enclave of the Western Region have resorted to proceeds they realise from trading-off portions of their farms to illegal miners in order to maintain their cocoa farms, the B&FT has gathered.
Sources say the inability of farmers to raise substantial funds during off-seasons to...
In its quest to provide holistic financial services to cherished customers, Atwima Kwanwoma Rural Bank at Pakyi No2 in the Ashanti Region has in collaboration with StarLife Assurance Company Limited introduced 4 Bancassurance products to its wide range of both generic and tailor-made products.
The products are Child Education Plan,...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has launched its Mobile Service Week in Takoradi on the theme ‘Securing your retirement – your role as a Stakeholder’.
The SSNIT Mobile Service is an annual event wherein SSNIT officers move from their regular office settings to pitch camp at vantage...
Activities at the country’s two major harbours, Tema and Takoradi, continue to experience a decline as trade between Ghana and other countries remain negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The second-quarter bulletin report released by the Bank of Ghana has shown that container traffic, which measures port activities, saw a...
Strategic Sourcing and Industrialisation insights with Prof Douglas Boateng
Public and private sector organisations are increasingly beginning to adopt strategic sourcing practices as a means to move towards value chain sourcing and improvements in productivity, competitiveness and service delivery quality.
Yet, despite increased recognition of the power that strategic sourcing can...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has handed over 100 Daewoo Zyle buses funded by the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) to the Intercity State Transport Company (STC) Coaches Limited.
At a cost of US$13million, with a three-year repayment period, the bank provided 75 percent of the funds with STC providing...