Saturday, July 4, 2026
Victor Asante, the Managing Director of FBNBank Ghana, believes that many of the changes caused by the global pandemic - especially to business operations and regulations - should become the new normal after Coronavirus pandemic. “Why would banking move back to the pre-coronavirus mode of operation when the potential for...
…A Finance and Investment perspective. From a small market in Wuhan, China, the novel Coronavirus, now named COVID-19 began an inexorable march around the world and is now truly a global health crisis. Half a century of globalization has brought us closer, for good or for worse. Integrated financial markets,...
Quality Life Assurance Company (QLAC), a company owned by the Ghana Catholic Bishop Conference (GCBC), has donated the sum of Fifteen Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢15,000) to the GCBC COVID-19 Relief Fund. The donation is coming in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on frontline health workers of...
Introduction The Institute of ICT Professionals Ghana (IIPGH), an association of professionals in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Ghana, has been following with keen interest recent conversations on social media and mainstream media with regards to stories linking the new mobile telephony technology called 5G to the...
The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has expressed its disappointment with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority over modalities being used to implement the directives to waive demurrage and rent charges. This is because businesses were not able to operate within the lockdown period, and it is unimaginable that they would...
The UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has noted that the sharp plunge in global oil demand and prices will weigh heavily on productivity activity in the energy, oil and gas sectors of the country. The British research firm added that the decline in the hydrocarbons sector will have spillover effects...
Indigenous Oil Marketing company, GOIL Company Limited has presented personal protective equipment (PPE), Veronica Buckets, and disinfectants to the Ashaiman Polyclinic in support of the government’s efforts to stem the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The items, valued at GH₵20,000 comprised Veronica buckets; medical overalls; 2000 pieces of hand sanitisers;...
GH¢500,000 presented to COVID-19 National Trust Fund Donates GH¢416,666 through bankers’ association Presents 2 ventilators worth GH¢300,000.00 to healthcare facilities Societe Generale Ghana has donated an amount of GH¢500,000.00 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund. The gesture as reckoned by the bank is to help the government and therefore Ghanaians...
Welcome to another week of financial learning. We will be discussing the “hunger” impact of Covid-19 lockdown on the masses. The COVID-19 lockdown has taught us lessons that we will need to incorporate as part of our daily lives going forward. One such lesson is going back to the basics of...
The world is experiencing a sharp deterioration in economic performance, due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. Developing countries are certain to be hit hard by what the International Monetary Fund, and others, warn will be the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Almost every country on the planet...