WORLD Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will arrive in Ghana on Thursday, October 30, 2014, for meetings with Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur and other country officials. Dr. Kim will also meet with officials of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to discuss the Ebola epidemic and its debilitating impact on the three […]
Category: Finance
Financial System Facing More Than ‘A Few Bad Apples’
THE scandals buffeting the financial markets are not down to a “few bad apples” and authorities are ready to impose more regulation on the sector to regain public trust, a senior Bank of England official has said.
Access Bank Unveils 3 Products
AS part of efforts to promote financial inclusion and wealth creation, Access Bank Ghana has launched three new products, with exclusive benefits and discounts to customers.
Fidelity Bank, Reroy Cables Bosses Crowned Marketers of the Year
TWO hardworking chief executives of Ghana were over the weekend crowned the Marketing Man and Marketing Woman of the Year 2013, by the prestigious Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG).
Forex Dealers Lose Heavily As Cedi Continues To Stabilise
FOREX dealers and individual hoarders of foreign currencies have complained of losing huge amounts of Ghana cedis from wrongly anticipating a further fall in the cedi’s value against major trading currencies during the local currency’s free fall which peaked to about GHC3.8O to USS1 at the end of August this year.
Governor Tells Bankers To Embrace New Rules Or Quit
SENIOR bank executives unhappy with new rules to make them criminally liable for failures should resign, according to the Governor of the Bank of England.
UBA Ghana Celebrates Customers
UNITED Bank for Africa (UBA) Ghana has commenced this year’s Global Customer Service Week celebration with the theme ‘Yes to Excellence’.
‘Boosting Shared Prosperity is Key to Tackling Inequality’
WORLD Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today called for economic growth that creates more just societies, and he defined the institutions goal of boosting shared prosperity as the World Bank Groups way of tackling the global challenge of inequality.
Lloyds Bank Sacks Staff And Claws Back Bonuses Over Libor Rate-rigging
Lloyds said it could not name the employees because the dismissals were subject to appeal LLOYDS Banking Group today sacked eight managers and traders for the rigging of benchmark interest rates and confiscated £3 million of their future bonuses.
1ST National Bank Rebrands To GN Bank
FIRST National Bank, a leading universal bank in Ghana, has changed its name to GN Bank, to help inject vigour into the growth of the bank.