The general price levels of goods and services, according to Ghana Statistical Service, have further increased in the month of May - following price hikes by traders due to the coronavirus pandemic effects. General prices increased by 0.7 of a percentage point over the previous month, as it recorded 11.3...
It is increasingly becoming clear that the entire banking ecosystem and the way consumers interact with financial institutions have been shaken as a result of COVID-19. Today’s customers have different expectations of their financial partners, and prefer to interact with them in more innovative ways as current circumstances demand by...
Amenfiman Rural Bank Limited at Wasa Akropong in the Wasa Amenfi East District in the Western Region has put together some relief interventions to cushion clients to ease the financial difficulties in this era of COVID 19. The CEO of the Bank, Dr Alex Asmah, in an interview with Business...
push gov’t to aid in release of locked up funds consider laying off staff COVID-19 worsens situation The Ghana Cooperative Credit Unions Association (CUA), the union responsible for regulation and supervision of all credit unions in the country, has appealed for government to see to the release of its...
Nigerian banks plan to restructure over a third of loans after running into repayment problems due to the coronavirus pandemic, a member of the central bank monetary policy committee said. A total of 17 banks have submitted requests to restructure over 32,000 loans for businesses and individuals, representing 33% of...
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...
According to the definition of Internal Auditing in the IIA's International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), internal auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organisation's operations. Internal auditor helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve...
Despite inflation surging to double digits in April as a result of a spike in demand for food and other essentials in anticipation of the lockdown announcement, Databank Research says there is hope that the rate will come down due to government’s subsidy on utilities. In late March and April,...
The Auditor-General (A-G) has submitted a report on the Management of Petroleum Funds for 1st January 2018 to 31 December 2018 to Parliament. A statement signed by Mrs Ama Awoe-Bosumafi Assistant Director of Public Relations Unit on behalf of the Director General, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, in...
Banks and other financial institutions have long been faced with the trends of online and mobile banking adoption. Up until now, there has been little that financial institutions could do to encourage specific groups of non-actors to change the way they bank in adoption of digital services. But that...