Month: November 2019

SEC revokes licenses of Gold Coast Securities, FirstBanc and 51 other fund managers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has, with effect from today, revoked the licences of Fifty-Three (53) Fund Management Companies. According to SEC, these actions were taken pursuant to Section 122 (2) (b) of the Securities Industry Act, 2016 (Act 929 or “the Act”) which authorizes the Securities and Exchange Commission to revoke the licence …

Farmers happy with new agricultural financing initiative

Smallholder farmers have expressed relief as they no longer have to source for expensive and unreliable funding for their farming activities. This was at the launch of the Ghana Warehouse Receipt Financing in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, a collaboration between the ARB Apex Bank, the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), and the International Finance Corporation …