Why Ghana gov't needs to rethink too many Eurobond issues Introduction There are several advantages that Eurobond brings to the issuing country. The main advantage is to increase the liquidity and...
Manifesto equivalence trying to outdo political equivalence. This is what our last week was all about. After launching their 2016 manifesto and pointing out how much bigger it was than the NPP...
Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci has been arrested in connection with a long-running inquiry into corruption at oil giant Petrobras. Prosecutors said he had maintained a "criminal...
A 38-year-old man has reportedly committed suicide at Aprabong, suburb of Kumasi after he became a victim of microfinance scam, StarFMonline.com has learnt. The yet-to-be named victim reportedly...
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr Abdul Nashiru Issahaku, has given the strongest indication that with the debt owed to commercial bank by the Volta River Authority (VRA) now partly...
McOttley Unit Trust (McTrust), a product of McOttley Capital Limited and an investment company from the McOttley group of companies, was adjudged the Best Balance Fund in 2015 among about 16 other...
The acting Country Director of Technoserve, Mr Samuel Baba Adongo, has appealed to the government to establish a fund that would serve as a backbone to enhance the development of the small and...
The Government is making efforts to address the persistent structural weakness in the fiscal formulation that relates especially to commitment control and contracts to ensure effective fiscal...
An anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely-Hayford, wants government to dissolve the Secretariat solely charged with the responsibility to disburse the District Assembly Common Fund, saying it is a...
Failure to pay electricity, water and telephone bills could now land Kenyans on the list of defaulters at the credit reference bureau and deny them access to loans. The noose is tightening on bad...
Barely five months after a currency swap deal between Nigeria and China was enmeshed in controversy, the country’s import profile from the Far-East Asian nation has remained high and intermediated...
A French appeals court has slashed the amount of damages due to be paid by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel to €1m ($1.12m; £860,00). Kerviel had been ordered to pay back the €4.9bn of losses his...
The Bank of Ghana is to soon come out with revised regulations on Ghana’s mobile financial service sector. It follows what the central bank views as the significant contribution of the current...
Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia says he is best placed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to know what pertains in the party especially in the areas of financing...
The Oasis Africa Venture Capital Fund (OAF) has been recapitalised to US$27 million with the support of new funds from three institutions. The recapitalisation is the second phase of OAF, which...
Economic Surgeon - K Amissah-Arthur heading government’s economic management team with courage, vision, wisdom and ability By Maxwell Okamafo Adoo He’s someone with a mastery of public...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) will pay more for it's annual cocoa loan this year than it did for the US$1.8 billion it took from the international finance market last year. Although the board is...
New York, September 20, 2016: The United Nations General Assembly kicked off yesterday, September 20 in New York City. Over 140 Heads of State were expected to attend in a yearly tradition of...
The Deputy Director-General in charge of Legal at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr Alexander Williams, says the Securities Exchange Bill is set to enhance the development of the...
The Government is confident that the newly passed Public Financial Management (PFM) Act, Act 921, will help regulate the borrowings of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as part of measures aimed at...
