The heightened dependency on digital infrastructure resulting in more time spent online, spread of the virus, fear and uncertainty in the midst of COVID-19, has created fertile ground for cybercrime experts to use sophisticated, complex and innovative tactics to stay ahead of their targets.
In a webinar presentation to members...
As Zoomlion fumigates & disinfects E/R SHSs
The Headmaster of Koforidua Senior High Technical School (SECTECH), Koforidua, Eastern Region, Mr Samuel Prince Folley has revealed that bedbugs infestation in the school sometimes compels many of his students to sleep in the school’s dining hall.
He said with the high incidence...
Republic Bank Ghana, a subsidiary of Republic Financial Holdings Limited, has made a GH¢200,000 donation towards the construction of a 100-bed COVID-19 Infectious Disease Isolation and Treatment Centre as part of its support to several medical facilities spread across the country.
The COVID-19 Infectious Disease Isolation and Treatment Centre located...
Demand for future borrowings to pay power producers for today’s COVID-19-induced freebies is likely to exacerbate the country’s already precarious debt profile and push Ghana into a sovereign financial crisis if adequate measures are not taken, Dr. Jerry Kombat Monfant, President of MBIC Group - a management and strategy...
Determined to see a self-sufficient Ghana, the ever pro-active agric non-governmental organization, Agrihouse Foundation is, once more, serving Ghanaians another of its life enhancing initiatives they have aptly called 1 Household, 1 Garden initiative. Already, over 600 households have registered to the initiative within one week of the project’s...
The Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC) has donated medical essentials worth GH¢50,000 to the Ga East Hospital to help in the management and treatment of patients with COVID-19 at the facility.
The medical essentials donated include a number of Omron i11 Digital BP Apparatus (with cuff and...
MTN Ghana has presented items to the Western Regional Chief Imam toward the celebration of this year’s Eid-ul-fitr celebration at Sekondi. The items include bags of rice, cartons of vegetable cooking oil, assorted drinks and cartons of mineral water.
“We are in the fasting season and we deem it necessary...
The Bank of Ghana has awarded the first-ever Payment Service Provider (Enhanced) Licence to one of the nation’s foremost financial technology companies, Nsano Limited.
Nsano Limited - a diversified financial technology solutions provider which currently maintains its focus on building custom mobile financial service applications for banks and insurance companies,...
The Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network (GHAMFIN) is working to set up a GH¢10million bailout fund to support its member, as the outbreak of COVID-19 has adversely impacted their bottom lines.
The action, according to Executive Director of GHAMFIN Yaw Gyamfi, is to help prevent any potential bankruptcy of any of its members...
Expected credit losses
Keeping employees safe
Cybersecurity issues, etc.
Banks should brace for substantial credit losses, increased cybersecurity challenges and increased cost in keeping employees safe as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to wreak havoc on all sectors of the economy, a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has said.
The report,...