The Bank of Ghana in its attempt at refocusing and re-engineering the rural banking concepts has revised sections of the Rural and Community Banks regulations.

Mr Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister and Member of Parliament for Kwabre West has said that government's quest to improve the level of investments could only be realized if investors exploited the

Launching of Foreign Private Capital Flows Survey (FPCF)

Venue: Bugum Conference Hall, La Palm Royal Hotel
Date: Monday 29th September 2008

PARTICIPANTS in the High-Level Meeting of the United Nations have tasked the UN Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report on the development needs of Africa.

It is more than a year now since the redenomination of our currency. Many were those who hailed the exercise as a piece of welcome news, as it would promote easy financial transactions.

Ghana cedi on Monday fell significantly against the major currencies especially to the pound and euro pushing up the Gold Coast Securities (GCS)-Cedi Index by 0.97 points despite a slight appreciation against the CFA.

HFC Bank (Ghana) Ltd. on Monday launched the "I Like" campaign to re-position itself to better provide banking services to meet customers' expectations.

UT Financial Services, a non-bank finance institution, on Monday launched an Initial Public Offer to raise GH¢27 million to finance the company's branch expansion programme and acquisition of motor vehicles,

WITHHOLDING tax administration continues to be a bane of the private sector, as the system swells their financial out-flows and crunches general flows of businesses.

GHANA’S debt burden dropped from 58 per cent in 2007 to 49 per cent as at the end of June this year.

Ten of the world's biggest banks have expressed their desire to commit a $70 billion borrowing facility to bolster worldwide liquidity and reduce volatility in what they called an "extraordinary market environment".

Mr. Baah Wiredu, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the 12th of September 2008 edition of the Daily Graphic was modest about the increment in petroleum prices (2,800% per annum) during the 19 year rule of the (P)NDC.

The Bible prophecy that the first shall be the last and vice versa is coming to fulfillment as Nigeria, the once most sought after country by neigbouring African countries most especially Ghana has become the

The annual rate of inflation for August dropped by 0.21 percentage point to 18.10 per cent, the second consecutive fall since the beginning of the year. In July, the rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 18.31 per cent. Inflation had consistently risen from

Prudential Bank says it is set to introduce more electronic-based banking products to ensure smooth and convenient banking transactions for customers. Some of the products that the bank envisaged to introduce include mobile phone banking,

NOTICE TO ALL BANKS AND THE PUBLIC
NOTICE NO. BG/GOV/SEC/2008/25
THE NEW $5 BILL

Nana Juaben-Boaten Siriboe, Chief Director of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning on Friday called for establishment of more research institutions to develop policy ideas for national development.

The National Investment Bank (NIB) on Thursday said, it was poised to increase its operational performance to meet the competition posed by the new banks in the industry.

Trouble borne by banks to carry cheques for clearance at the Bank of Ghana will end by December when the Code Line Cheque Truncation System of the National Payments and Settlement Reforms Project become operational.

Smart cards burst into tertiary institutions soon
Payment of loans to students in various tertiary institutions in the country will soon be done through the e-zwich biometric smart card. Talks are currently on-going between officials of the Ghana Interbank Payment and....more

The World Bank has vowed to suspend loans to countries that violate its anti-corruption policies. In 2006, the Bank suspended several loans and blocked debt