When I started my banking career around 2008 right from the University of Ghana, Legon with a certain global bank, I was privileged and honoured to join their Transaction Banking (TB) team and in fact, that team was the product development and sales specialist supporting the Client Coverage unit...
Renowned energy industry thought leader and Honorary Professor of The Academic Union, Oxford, Prof Hugh Aryee says Hanergy Global is redefining sustainable energy supply and consumption while creating game-changing cost and energy saving electronic solutions for consumers. According to the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Hanergy has introduced several innovative products...
The former Director-General of Ghana Health Service and now Director of Health at the Presidency, Dr. Nsia Asare, has indicated that plans are far advanced for decentralised medical education to enable teaching hospitals to train specialists on the job to address the low patient to doctor ratio. He stated that...
Country Manager at AZA Finance, a cross-border payment provider, Nana Yaw Owusu-Banahene, has described central bank digital currencies (CBDC) as the next major layer in the evolution of the pan-African cross-border payment framework. In his estimation, the enhanced interoperability offered by CBDCs makes them the ideal vehicle to surmount existing...
The Economist Intelligence Unit ((EIU) has urged government to go for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, saying it will benefit the economy, especially in a bid to reignite investor interest. Many investors, particularly those interested in the debt market, shun the country’s bonds, with some of the existing ones...
Technical and commercial losses of about GH¢3.2billion are threatening the future of state-owned power utility, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the electricity value chain, says Energy Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh. The company’s losses in current exchange terms amounts to over US$400million and stem from power theft, malfunctioning metres,...
US$80m plant will increase cement value-for-money competitiveness Reduce raw material imports, create jobs Reduce CO2 emissions by 20% CBI Ghana Ltd., producers of Supacem Cement, have signed an US$80million contract to construct the world’s largest Calcined Clay Cement plant, a 405,000-tonne-per-annum plant at the Tema Free Zones Enclave. The...
as city readies for int. airport status in August The Car Rentals Association of Ghana is anticipating a new hub in Kumasi, targeting the city’s near international airport status by August this year. The association, with a current membership of about 78 duly registered car rental companies and an employment...
This year’s 5th Ghana Business Leaders Excellence Awards Ceremony, being organised by Top Brass Ghana, is   scheduled to take place at the elegant Alisa Hotel, North Ridge – Accra, on Friday 27th May 2022. The Awards Ceremony will be held appropriately under the theme: ‘Covid-Era National Development through Dynamic Business...
Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine has accelerated the division of the world into two blocs - one comprising the world’s democracies, and the other its autocracies. This, in turn, has exposed the risks inherent in economic interdependence among countries with clashing ideologies and security interests. And although the coming...