Investment objective is the fundamental reason for investing. Every single investment vehicle can be categorized according to three primary objectives - safety, income, and growth. The argument that an amount of money has no purpose and is just being invested for investment sake is quite mistaken. Usually, the situation...
According to the Central Bank’s Domestic Money Bank’s Income Statement, a total of GHS2.086 billion was written off as bad debt by banks operating in Ghana. The total bad debt stock was 4.7% less than that of 2020 which was GHS2.183 billion.
Dear readers, last week, I shared some sentiments...
The issue of problem loans is an albatross that keeps rearing its head in the affairs of financial institutions in both and advanced and less advanced economies. Granting loans is one of the core functions of banks.
What are the effects of bad loans?
A bank with high percentage of bad...
Segregation of duties in the traditional lending process
Despite the innovation and technological advancements in Banking, the SoD policy still runs supreme in all its operations. Banking depends on trust, but it is not absolute. It is better to say “Trust, but verify.” Many friendships have been broken because...
“A people will grow when their elders start planting trees whose shade they will never enjoy”, some old saying goes something like that.
The word “Sustainability” could refer to the ability of an organization, a business, a person, a people, to continue over a longer period. It's highly relevant in...
As I travel across most of the countries in Africa for example, I see a continent with a bright future but bogged down by uncountable glitches, hiccups or problems stemming from the office of most of the leaders of organizations that see leadership as only a political position instead...
