Ogilvy Africa has announced the rollout of the region’s first real-time marketing product that offers social intelligence and analytics, community management and content innovations; in a unified offering.
Christened FEED, the product aims to connect brands to popular culture to keep pace with rapidly changing audience interest. FEED is being...
GCB remains the biggest bank in Ghana. Having operated in the country for over six (6) decades, GCB has undergone major digital transformations and can boast having one of the most robust IT infrastructure in the country.
Based on solid IT backing, the bank has churned out a lot of...
African countries made great strides in strengthening commitments and capacity to achieve tax transparency and exchange information on illicit fund flows in 2019, the latest Tax Transparency in Africa report, launched Thursday, revealed.
Tax Transparency in Africa 2020 - produced by the Global Forum for Transparency and Exchange of Information...
Central bank governor, Ernest Kwamina Addison, said on Thursday that Ghana needs to raise more domestic revenue to tackle a ballooning budget deficit that could exceed 7% of GDP this year, as growth shrivels due to the coronavirus crisis.
The deficit hit 3.4% of GDP in the first quarter against...
For the majority of Ghana’s banking public, today’s Ecobank is virtually unrecognisable from the bank that opened its doors to them 30 years ago in 1990. The Ghanaian subsidiary of the Pan African banking giant Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) is undoubtedly the finest and one of the largest universal...
After its full rebranding, Absa Bank Ghana has won its first global industry award in less than a year. The bank has been adjudged the 2020 Best Retail Bank in Ghana by the reputable international business magazine Global Banking & Finance Review based in the United Kingdom.
This was made...
First National Bank Ghana has announced the appointment of Dominic Adu as its first Ghanaian Chief Executive Officer, effective Wednesday July 1, 2020. Dominic takes over from Richard Hudson who has served in this position since the inception of the bank five years ago.
Mr. Adu was the Chief Executive...
Mark Badu-Aboagye, CEO of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI), has noted that anxiety is high in the SME sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He made the disclosure at the B&FT’s online forum, ‘Ghana’s Most Respected CEOs’, held late last week. The anxiety, he noted, is...
Bank of Ghana Governor, Ernest Kwamina Addison, has cause to worry about the country’s ballooning budget deficit. He expressed the opinion that Ghana needs to raise more domestic revenue to tackle a ballooning budget deficit that could exceed 7% of GDP this year, as growth shrivels due to the...
Cultivation of poor planting materials and wrong cultural farming practices have been identified as major challenges accounting for low cashew productivity among local farmers.
In recent times, cashew has been identified as a new ‘gold’ for farmers, especially among those in the savannah-transition zone. It has triggered massive cultivation across...