In commemoration of the 36th National Farmers Day, the Chamber of Aquaculture (COA) has acknowledged the resilience of farmers especially during this era of COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Chamber, Ghanaian farmers do deserve plaudits as their role in the sustenance of the nation came to bare during the COVID-19 lockdown when Farmers (both peasant …
With Ghana spending over $200 million annually on fish import, a number of people have gone into aquaculture to bridge the production deficit. It’s past midday and the news team is at the Watergold Fisheries in Teshie in Accra. Here, there is strict adherence to Covid-19 safety protocols. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, …
The Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) is warning the public against the activities of a company called PBAY Limited. PBAY Limited according to SEC is an entity purporting to be able to facilitate the payment of customers locked-up funds with some SEC-regulated market operators whose licenses have been revoked in return for fees or a …
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an engagement series dubbed, “Time with the Commission” to drive closer partnerships with the investing public and other market operators in the capital market. The initiative forms part of the Commission’s mandate of regulating, innovating, and promoting the growth and development of an efficient, fair, and transparent …
Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, Speaker of Parliament, has suggested to African leaders to adopt best international standards and practices against money laundering and financial terrorism. He called on African governments to peer-review to assess the impact of measures adopted against the threats. The Speaker made the suggestion when a delegation from the Inter-Governmental Action Group …
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has projected Ghana’s economy to rebound strongly in 2021 at 5.7 per cent as a result of the implementation of the transformation phase of the Ghana CARES programme. He said the Government intended to scale down the expected 2021 Fiscal Deficit from 9.6 per cent of GDP to …
Environmentally friendly refrigerators and air conditioners will be more widely accessible and affordable in Ghana through a new Green On-wage financing scheme. The ECOWAS Refrigerators and Air Conditioners Initiative is collaborating with CalBank Plc, Ecobank Ghana Limited, Letshego Ghana Savings and Loans Plc as partner banks and with Ederick Limited, Electroland Ghana Limited, Hisense, Nesstra …
A new KPMG report says banks can only survive in the highly digitised era if their product offerings are designed in a way that meets the preference of millennials. The report titled: “Heightened customer expectation in the new normal and beyond,” said the future of customer experience will be insight-led, digitally-enabled and would require customer-centric …
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has placed its market risk appetite for Ghana at £1.5bn, which should support more investment and trade between the two countries, the West Africa regional representative of UKEF, Steve Gray, has said. Market risk appetite is the willingness of investors to bear financial risk, with …
Board chairman of the Anum Rural Bank in the Eastern Region, Daniel Adu Appea says the bank has managed to sustain the shocks of the global pandemic and the financial sector clean-up to maintain its strong footing in the financial space during the year under review 2020, despite recording declines in its profits. The bank’s …