African economies are well positioned to benefit from rapidly accelerating technological change if they can harness the current open landscape for innovation.
East Africa is already a global leader...
Ecobank is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the...
Despite impressive performances in 2017, banks are not likely to deal out dividends this year; at least not so generously, as they struggle to meet the new GH¢400million stated capital set by the...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has dismissed the purported takeover of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) by another local bank, Unibank Ghana Limited. “Just to clarify… the Central Bank has not...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged the over 3000 unemployed youth enrolled by the National Youth Authority (NYA) to equip them with digital marketing and entrepreneurship skills not...
The National Youth Authority (NYA) Thursday launched a stupendous project aimed at equipping over 3000 unemployed youth with Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship skills. The beneficiaries are young...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, said Government has recruited 3,000 unemployed persons under the Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship Programme for skill training. He said the...
Popular mining firm, Gold Fields Ghana, has disclosed plans to dismiss about 1,500 of its workers. The massive retrenchment will reportedly take effect this month, December, 2017. Gold Fields’ Vice...
2nd Deputy BoG Governor – The Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiama, has resigned. According to reports, Dr. Asiama took hid accumulated leave before his final exit from...
The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has unveiled strategic plans that will soon transform its operations into world class service delivery. These plans come at the heels of many other transformation...
Ecobank Ghana has sacked a total of 181 outsourced staff from its branches across the country, Business and Financial Times (B&FT) reports reveal. The massive lay-off which took effect yesterday ,...
MenzGold, a Ghana-based gold dealing company has been there for some years now. The organization however, started making media headlines few days ago, following the Bank of Ghana’s issuance of a...
Calvis will be performing to a live band, his soul-searching songs as has been done by all artistes that have appeared on the show in the previous weeks. He released his first single ‘None Like...
Nigeria's former oil minister faces charges only at home but her name crops up in a growing number of international cases that lift the lid on the scale of alleged corruption in the country's oil...
Banks’ interests on car loans drop to 31.1 % in June The latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report by the Bank of Ghana shows that Unibank offers the highest rate on...
Nigeria is reviving its search for oil in the country's conflict-riven northeast, aided by China and emboldened by gains made against Boko Haram. President Muhammadu Buhari's government is exploring...
The 16th Edition of the Ghana Banking Awards was held in Accra on Saturday, 15th July, 2017. And the winners are… The 2017 Ghana Banking Awards (GBA), comprised 15 plus two award categories...
Ecobank is 2016 Bank of the Year Ecobank Ghana Limited has been adjudged the Bank of the Year, at the 16th Edition of the Ghana Banking Awards (GBA) held in Accra. Ecobank also won the award for...
The average interest offered by banks on customer deposits dropped by 2.67 percent between May and June 2017. According to the latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report...
Some players in the banking industry have indicated of their plans to expand their operations with insurance companies to increase penetration in the insurance market. According to them, the slow...
