First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari, has revealed that the central bank’s digital currency, the e-Cedi, will be piloted by the close of this year - in a regulatory and innovation sandbox.
Within the financial sector, a regulatory and innovation sandbox is a supportive and...
Savings and Loans Company, Best Point and an education promotion organization, LearnRite, have partnered to offer parents the opportunity to acquire Senior High School (SHS) learning materials for students at flexible terms. In collaboration with its astute partners – Approachers Series, Concise Mathematics, KOV's Series, Atta Kay among others,...
Executive Director of the Association of Rural Banks-Ghana, Mrs. Comfort Owusu, has advised rural banks’ General Managers and CEOs to quickly adapt to change - particularly in the business environment.
According to her, the external business environment and government regulatory policies have direct impacts on their activities as bankers, and...
Patricia Obo-Nai, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vodafone Ghana, says the telecom company is more concerned with having a positive competition in a provided equal space that would collectively help to satisfy consumer needs.
“We at Vodafone Ghana don’t have any problem so long as the actions of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic onslaught has actually fast-tracked the country’s digitisation process. In many respects, it has enhanced the digital uptake pace.
However, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana’s 2020 Banking Survey suggests that some workers in the banking sector face the imminent danger of losing their jobs following the COVID-19-induced digital transformation of...
Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) organised its maiden virtual edition of the annual SME Clinic for over two hundred of its SME customers across different business sectors on the theme, “Running a Successful SME Business in a Disruptive Environment”.
The Chief Executive of UMB, Mr. Benjamin Amenumey stressed on the Bank’s...
“The world suffers a lot not because of the violence of bad people but because of the silence of good people” …..Napoleon Bonaparte.
Many Ghanaians witness different forms of crimes, which has the potential to jeopardize the health, safety or lives of others. Most individuals who witness such misconduct often...
Banks in the country are ready to finance projects and programmes in the private and public sectors with potential to revive the economy irrespective of COVID-19 prevalence, panellists at the fifth edition of the B&FT-organised Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs Breakfast Series, have said.
The panel, made up of bankers, economists...
Banks are still waiting on the Central bank to offer specific guidelines on the measures introduced - including reduction in interest rates and reserve requirements to combat impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, since being without timelines and durations makes planning difficult.
Despite their introduction in March, 2020 - with banks...
It is such a pity that modern Ghanaian society has become so polarized that freelance writers and especially those who choose to write on banking related issues have to be extremely careful in what they write, when, and even how to write, lest they are branded as belonging to...