Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Ernest Addison has announced that the central bank has reached an agreement with the Ghana Air Force to use its fleet, comprising helicopters and aircraft, to airlift money for banks and other financial institutions across the country. According to the governor, the agreement forms part of efforts by the central bank to reduce...
Non-Performing Loans ratio of the banking industry went down by 0.2 percent from June 2020 to 15.5 percent in August 2020, the latest Bank of Ghana’s Summary of Macroeconomic and Financial Data has revealed. Whilst some banks have registered very low NPLs, others have recorded NPLs of more than 20%. According to the July 2020 Banking Sector Development Report, the banking...
Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana(BoG), Elsie Awadzi, has expressed optimism that in the not too distant future more women will be allowed to serve as Deputy Governors of the central bank. She revealed that since the BoG was established some 63 years ago, only two women, herself and Nana Oye Mansah Yeboah who is on retirement, have had...
Selected accounting professionals have been taken through a sensitization workshop on the clean-up exercise in the banking sector undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). According to the Controller and Accountant General, Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, the workshop was to afford the accountants the opportunity to have firsthand information on what actually led to the banking crisis witnessed in...
The Receiver of the 347 defunct microfinance companies, 23 savings and loans and finance houses, faced a GHS4 billion shortfall in the asset base of defunct companies it hoped to recover. Speaking on Citi TV‘s The Point of View, Eric Nana Nipah explained that the firms cumulatively said they had an asset base of about GHS6 billion. But further...
The Regional Chief Executive Officer of United Bank for Africa (UBA) (Group) Limited has called for the conduct of rigorous background checks on workers in sensitive roles and other staff as part of measures to curb cyber-attacks on banks and financial institutions."Investigate staff living above their means and most importantly compensate adequately to protect staff from undue financial pressure."Mrs...
… ready for stated capital increment Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs), especially finance houses and savings and loans companies, are pushing the government to expand the Ghana Amalgamated Trust Limited’s (GAT) scope to support them with secure and cheap funds, as they ready themselves for a capital increment directive from the central bank. The SDIs, which are the biggest financiers of Small...
The President of the Ghana Association of Bankers, Alhassan Andani, has assured the general public of safety within the banking sector despite the increase in fraud cases. This follows new figures released by the Bank of Ghana earlier this year which show that cases of fraud in the banking sector increased to 2,295 in 2020, from 2,175 in 2019. Speaking to Citi...
Twenty (20) out of the twenty (24) banks licensed in Ghana by Bank of Ghana in 2019, paid a total direct tax of GHS1.6 billion, which also include the five per cent national fiscal stabilization levy to Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the agency mandated by law to assess collect and account for tax revenue on behalf of government. This GHS1.6...
The Ghana Interbank Payments and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), in collaboration with all banks, has introduced a new service on the existing ACH Direct Credit (DC) platform.Known as ‘ACH DC Near Real Time (NRT)’, the new product allows corporate institutions to make bulk payments faster and almost in real time.ACH DC is a secure and reliable bulk payments service,...
