First National Bank, a division of FirstRand group, (which is the largest financial institution in Africa by market capitalisation) has been adjudged The Most Innovative African Bank at the 2017 African FinTech Awards for the second year in a row.
The Africa & Middle East Resources Investment Group LLC (AMERI) says its 2015 agreement with Ghana for the provision of a Power Plant in the heat of the country’s power crisis, offered the best deal despite government findings that the $510 million deal was bloated by $150 million.
Management of the University of Ghana, Legon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with HFC Bank Ghana, aimed at improving the campus infrastructure outlook.
Ghana, together with six other African countries,have accounted for more than 75 percent of the sovereign debt issued so far in Africa, the World Bank has said.
The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has revealed that it has as at September 2017 recovered a total of GH¢ 9.2 million out of GH¢100 Million that was given out as loans to beneficiaries under the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.
Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communication, has revealed that the National Communication Authority (NCA) has received a number of petitions from both commercial and community radio stations.
Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the E-certificate component which completes the registrar general department’s business automation project which now allows for the registration of businesses to be done fully online.
Poultry farmers in the country have threatened to sell diseased birds to the Ghanaian public on occasion of another outbreak of bird flu, if government fails to meet its promised compensation over destroyed stock.
Some restaurant operators say they will revert to the use of charcoal to prepare their meals, hours after the LPG Marketers Association of Ghana declared a total shutdown of member gas stations.
Scores of customers of betting company SupaBets have vowed to lock up all branches of the company till monies owed them, about three hundred and fifty thousand Ghana cedis (350,000) are paid.