Daily Archives - October 5, 2020

Banks wrote-off ¢1.01bn as bad debt in half-year 2020

Banks wrote-off ¢1.01 billion for the first half of this year, about 25% more than the same period last year.  According to the Domestic Money Banks Income Statement Highlights, the bad debt was classified as loan losses, depreciation, amongst others. However, the general size of loans and advances went up. The industry’s stock of gross loans and advances (excluding the loans under...

Ban bank staff guilty of fraud from practising – Dr. Atuahene

A corporate governance and banking consultant, Dr. Richmond Atuahene says employees in the banking sector who are found culpable of fraudulent activities should be banned from practising in the sector This comes days after reports emerged that the Bank of Ghana is currently in consultation with stakeholders to fine-tune a new code of conduct to guide the conduct of bankers and other employees...