Full Year 2020 represented a record-setting year for the local equity and bonds market, according to the December report of the Ghana Stock Exchange’s (GSEs) summary of monthly activities.
Despite a financially turbulent year for most sectors of the economy, occasioned by the ongoing pandemic, the Ghana Fixed Income Market...
Information gathered by the B&FT reveals that the Security and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigations and forwarded the case to the Economic and Organised Crime Office regarding two companies purporting to be investment firms.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 8, 2021 issued a notice strongly warning...
If there has been any time in the history of the fourth republic - i.e. since 1992 - when administration of the country could be classified as being difficult, then it is none other than the second term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Perhaps if the situation was this...
Leaves no room for policy rate cut
For the first time in three years, inflation has ended the year with a double-digit figure by recording 10.4 percent in December - a development that makes it very unlikely for the Monetary Policy Committee to cut the policy rate this...
There appears to be good news in the offing for businesses seeking patient capital to fund long-term projects, as the National Investment Bank (NIB) is poised to turn its attention toward the nation’s industrialisation drive.
This was disclosed by the bank’s Managing Director, Samuel Sarpong, in an exclusive interview with...
A child born in Ghana today will grow up to be an adult who is only 45 percent as productive as he/she would be under a benchmark of complete education and full health, according to the World Bank's Human Capital Index (HCI) 2020 Update.
The HCI, an international metric that...
Ghana’s first ever Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)-based educational centre for children has been officially opened for admission. The iSTEAM Academy will focus on nurturing the next generation of children’s curiosity to explore nature and test theories in everyday situations through hands-on experience.
The Academy, which uses evidence-based...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only disrupted the ongoing activities aimed at supporting the pharmaceutical industry in Ghana but has heightened the risk to growth outlook for the sector. Ghana’s pharmaceutical outputs is grossly estimated to be about 70 percent imports whilst the remaining 30 percent...
Fintech, the contraction of the words financial and technology, refers to the innovation that is disrupting traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. In Ghana, the payment space is composed primarily of companies that provide financial services to customers and merchants, which are not limited to sending...
The purpose of this piece is to tell the intellectually-stimulating, powerfully-inspiring and significantly-revealing rendezvous I had with Mr. John N. Tagoe, the then Strategy Manager of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) few years ago.
As a norm, new entrants in any organization are oriented on the structure of the...
















