With coronavirus containment measures providing a significant boost to online payments and e-commerce around the world, the pandemic appears to be accelerating the transition towards cashless transactions in emerging markets.
Concerns over the spread of the virus, along with the implementation of lockdown measures, have resulted in a significant global...
The practical challenge of quickly getting financial support in the hands of people who lost jobs amid the COVID-19 economic crisis has baffled advanced and developing economies alike. Economic lockdowns, physical distancing measures, patchy social protection systems and, especially for low-income countries, the high level of informality, complicate the...
Savings and Loans companies have been urged to take advantage of the opportunities presented by COVID-19 and leverage technology more aggressively to serve their clients and deepen financial inclusion.
Pierre Frank Laporte, the World Bank’s Country Director, noted that it was good that the savings and loans companies were embracing...
Over the next 15 months, Africa is set to receive a total of $50bn towards its economic recovery from the World Bank, which has identified the protection of the region's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as essential to its economic bounce-back from the coronavirus. Financial technology (fintech) has a key role...
GhanaWeb has spearheaded the creation of online election polls in Ghana to gauge opinions and perceptions of Ghanaians on the most pressing political and economic issues, as well as current events leading to the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.
This scientific poll is powered by GhanaWeb and the Africa Consumer...
The MultiChoice Group is proud to announce its latest initiative in the fight against COVID-19. The group has supported several initiatives in the fight against the spread of the pandemic which continues to wreak havoc across the globe, and it is being acutely felt across Africa.
Early in the spread of...
Navigating the storms of the new normal with digitalisation in the wake of COVID-19; a test case for indigenous banks
“No product is made today, no person moves today, nothing is collected, analyzed or communicated without some ‘digital technology’ being an integral part of it. That, in itself, speaks to the overwhelming,...
MTN Ghana has partnered Samsung Ghana to present 500 Samsung Galaxy A2 Core Smartphones to support government and the Ghana Health Services as they lead the fight against COVID-19 through enhanced Contact Tracing.
The phones come with 500 MTN SIM cards and a total of 3,000GB data. Each of the phones...
Whitehall Advisors Limited, a management consulting firm, in partnership with Africa Skills Hub (formerly Africa Internship Academy), a youth employment and business incubator organisation based in Accra, Ghana – has set up an SME Support Fund to assist 1000 businesses in Ghana for the next two years.
The fund forms...