The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected economies, businesses and consumers across the world, especially in terms of crisis management, supply chains, liquidity and operations. Central banks and the wider banking community were among the first to experience these disruptions. Countries hit hard by the pandemic have taken aggressive fiscal...
The importance of combatting climate change has become increasingly clear in recent years, and sectors across the economy have worked to diversify their offerings to deal with these challenges. For capital markets, sustainable financing has been key. In November 2019 the Bank of Ghana and the Ghana Association of Bankers launched the country’s...
Ghana has made strides in recent years to deepen and broaden its digital financial services ecosystem. The government has prioritised the segment as key to bolstering financial inclusion, as well as ensuring business continuity in the event of another crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic. These efforts pre-date the pandemic: the Electronic...
The Ghanaian authorities have worked in recent years to increase the depth and breadth of the country’s capital markets, introducing fixed-income, commodity and small business-focused exchanges. The Covid-19 pandemic brought slower trading activity and lower market capitalisation as investors shifted from equities to comparatively lower-risk...
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020 had a dramatic effect on global connectivity. The implementation of border restrictions greatly disrupted the provision of goods and made cross-border travel extremely difficult. To adapt to these challenges, many governments, businesses and institutions moved towards a strategy of...
Moves prior to the Covid-19 pandemic to shore up the banking sector proved prescient, as it put local institutions in an advantageous position to face the unique challenges posed by the health crisis. After a sector clean-up, both assets and deposits rose as asset quality improved, and higher minimum capital requirements ensured that banks...
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