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Interviews & Viewpoints | Ekow Afedzie, Managing Director, Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE): Interview from The Report: Ghana 2020
Articles & Analysis | Ghana's banking sector clean-up has created a more sustainable industry from The Report: Ghana 2020
A regulatory crackdown on poor business practices and weak capital positions in Ghana’s banking sector has resulted in a series of market exits since August 2017. The outcome is a smaller but more sustainable banking industry, though this has come at a price. The Bank of Ghana (BoG) puts the total costs of its clean-up operation at some GHS10....
Articles & Analysis | Ghana's fixed-income capital markets to remain buoyant in 2020 from The Report: Ghana 2020
Ghana’s fixed-income market has experienced significant growth. As of end-September 2019 domestic fixed-income securities issued on the Ghana Fixed-Income Market (GFIM) totalled GHS104bn ($20.1bn), against GHS102.4bn ($19.8bn) over the same period in 2018, marking growth of 2%. Comparatively, the equity market experienced a year-to-date...
Articles & Analysis | Emerging markets respond to retrenchment of overseas banking operations from The Report: Ghana 2020
The three decades before the 2007-08 global financial crisis were marked by the world’s financial networks being increasingly interconnected. Financial system regulatory convergence, growing penetration of World Trade Organisation rules and the creation of currency unions, such as the euro, resulted in a surge in cross-border capital flows....
Articles & Analysis | Microfinance segment crucial for Ghana's rural and underserved populations from The Report: Ghana 2020
Ghana was an early adopter of the microfinance concept. According to the regulator, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the first credit union was established in northern Ghana as early as 1955, introduced to the country by Canadian missionaries. A more local financing tradition, susu (where informal agents charge a small fee to hold money and...
After successfully weathering a period of financial instability stemming from the banking sector, Ghana’s insurance industry is growing in size...