As part of measure aimed at deepening financial inclusion, Ecobank Ghana has launched the Ecobank MasterPass QR to its digital range of products. The MasterPass QR was designed together with world...
Two agents of Russia's FSB spy agency and two "criminal hackers" were indicted Wednesday over a massive cyberattack affecting 500 million Yahoo users, the US Justice Department announced. The...
The Minority in Parliament is asking government to clarify how its tax cuts announced last two weeks would benefit Ghanaians. Deputy Minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi, said government has to state...
Tony Elumelu visited Ghana as the first stop of his tour of Africa propagating the ideal of Africapitalism. In continuation of his strategic vision of engineering a robust economic and business...
An economist and CEO of the Institute of Chartered Economists, Ghana (ICEG), Gideon Amissah, says there is a likelihood of a ballooning fiscal deficit given the proposed tax cuts in the 2017 budget....
Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has presented to parliament some amendment bills that will pave way for the government to implement the tax cuts it announced in the 2017 budget. Mr Ofori-Atta, in...
A new report released by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), on the how much banks in Ghana charge you when you take a loan from them, has reveled that in the car loan category Bank of Baroda offers the...
The latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans and credit advances and the Average Interest (AI) paid on deposits by banks released by the Bank of Ghana revealed that...
Heritage Bank Limited, as a responsible corporate citizen, has responded to the President’s call for the private sector to support the ‘Ghana: 60 years on’ activities. During the launch of the...
The High Network of Wealthy Individuals (HNWI) in Ghana is expected to grow by 80% in the next 10years reaching 5,200 individuals in 2026. This is according to the “The Wealth Report 2017”, a...
A former Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor has advised the government to focus on stabilizing the economy this year rather than pursuing growth, since the economic fundamentals are weak. Although...
The average interest offered by banks on customer deposits has dropped by about 2.5 percent between January and February this year. The figure declined from 11.9 percent as at end of January 2017 to...
HSBC has appointed Mark Tucker, the chief executive of Asian insurer AIA, as group chairman. Mr Tucker will take over on 1 October, succeeding Douglas Flint who has been in the role since 2010. The...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is confident of meeting its ambitious revenue target of 34 billion cedis by the end of this year. This comes despite the one billion cedis value of all the tax cuts...
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta is optimistic that the measures outlined in the budget would help ensure efficiency in revenue collection and offset any shortfalls because of tax reliefs....
The decision has been made by the government and Central Bank of Iceland Iceland will lift all capital controls on its citizens, businesses and pension funds from Tuesday. Capital controls, such as...
The Ghana Economic Outlook and Business Strategy (EOBS) conference is scheduled to take place on March 22 this year. The annual event will be held on the theme: “Unlocking Ghana's Economic...
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has allayed fears of the public that the tax incentives announced by the Finance Minister in the 2017 Budget would hinder its tax collection efforts. In line with...
The Member of Parliament for Keta, Richard Quarshigah has stated that the budget statement failed to address unemployment issues given the alarming rate of joblessness in the country. According to...
Former Deputy Finance Minister, Ato Forson’s comments following the removal of taxes on spare parts has angered some spare parts dealers at the Suame Magazine in Kumasi. They are threatening a...
