DOSSIER: Bank of Ghana

All information and releases by the BoG

• CalBank scales-up digitisation to better meet customer needs in 2022 (2021-12-29)
• Government likely to rely on Bank of Ghana for financial support – Research institution (2021-11-08)
• Let’s reposition the rural banking brand to attract non-users – Executive Director (2021-10-14)
• Flashback: Air Force to airlift money to banks - BoG Governor (2021-09-30)
• BoG taps ADB for test-run of financial industry command SOC (2021-09-29)
• Critically address concerns of high loan default rates – Prof. Quartey to BoG board (2021-08-24)
• Akufo-Addo explains why he swore in BoG board instead of Ken Ofori-Atta (2021-08-21)
• FULL TEXT: BoG Governor's address at Business Sans Borders stakeholder engagement (2021-08-18)
• Bank of Ghana keeps policy rate unchanged at 13.5% (2021-07-27)
• Bank of Ghana issues revised Risk Management Directive for banks, financial institutions (2021-06-26)
• Bank of Ghana launches domestic gold purchase programme (2021-06-18)
• New Development Bank will be different – BoG assures (2021-06-07)
• LIST: Bank of Ghana's approved payment providers and e-money issuers (2021-04-02)
• Bank of Ghana gives breakdown of GH¢22.5 billion grant extended to govt in 2020 (2021-03-31)
• Mobile Money: BoG reduces interoperability charge to 1% (2021-03-30)
• BoG keeps policy rate unchanged at 14.5% for sixth time (2021-03-22)
• Bank of Ghana’s MPC to commence second meeting for 2021 (2021-03-15)
• BoG commits US$200 million to FX forward market in 2 months (2021-03-09)
• Financial cost of pandemic still mounting – BoG Governor (2021-02-19)
• Banks holdings in domestic debt stands at GH¢38.1 billion – Report (2021-02-18)
• FULL TEXT: Dr Ernest Addison's speech at Ghana Association of Bankers webinar (2021-02-18)
• BoG cautions public against money doublers, credit card loading schemes (2021-02-17)
• BoG develops new LAF for solvent banks, savings and loans companies (2021-02-09)
• BoG keeps policy rate at 14.5 percent after January 2021 MPC meeting (2021-02-01)
• BoG releases MPC meeting timelines for 2021 (2021-01-06)
• GH¢21 billion spent on banking sector clean-up - Akufo-Addo (2021-01-06)
• Ghana exceeds 3 key fiscal thresholds (2020-12-23)
• Bank of Ghana, Monetary Authority of Singapore sign agreement to promote SMEs (2020-12-11)
• Banks slow in adopting GMRA-backed repos (2020-12-02)
• First and Second Deputy BoG Governors inducted as IoD-Ghana Honorary Fellows (2020-11-27)
• Why Ghana needs a new financial sector regulation architecture (2020-11-26)
• Macroeconomic conditions generally improved – BoG Governor (2020-11-26)
• LIVESTREAMED: Bank of Ghana’s 97th MPC press conference (2020-11-23)
• Ghana’s public debt exceeds sustainability threshold (2020-11-23)
• AFI Gender Committee elects Elsie Addo Awadzi as Chairperson of GIFC (2020-11-17)
• Customers now confident in Ghana's banking sector - Patricia Sappor (2020-11-17)
• Economists urge MPC to maintain policy rate at 14.5% (2020-11-16)
• Bank of Ghana’s MPC to begin final meetings for 2020 on Wednesday (2020-11-16)
• Private sector looks forward to interest rate cut (2020-11-10)
• Ghana’s total cement sales increased by 8.9 percent (2020-11-04)
• BoG, EOCO & SEC have failed us on Menzgold saga – Obiri Boahen (2020-11-03)
• Coronavirus: Banks regaining enthusiasm for lending (2020-10-22)
• Collapsed SDIs strayed away from their mandates – Elsie Addo Awadzi (2020-10-14)
• SDI sector clean-up was necessary – Bank of Ghana (2020-10-14)
• FULL TEXT: Second Deputy Governor’s opening remarks at SDI's media sensitization (2020-10-13)
• Cross-border cooperation key to fighting cybercrime - 2nd Deputy Governor (2020-10-12)
• Value of mobile money transactions doubles in last twelve months – BoG data (2020-10-03)
• Cedi performance in first half of 2020 is the best since 2014 (2020-10-03)
• Economy bouncing back rapidly after easing of restrictions – Deputy BoG Governor (2020-10-03)
• Economy to recover earlier than expected – Deputy Governor assures (2020-10-02)
• Bank of Ghana index points to economic recovery (2020-09-30)
• BoG says fiscal policy is an area to watch (2020-09-30)
• Coronavirus: Here are the key sectors that experienced contraction (2020-09-29)
• Economy to grow between 2.0 and 2.5 percent in Q3, Q4 of 2020 - BoG (2020-09-29)
• LIVESTREAMED: Bank of Ghana's 96th Monetary Policy Committee Conference (2020-09-28)
• FULL TEXT: Bank of Ghana's 96th Monetary Policy Committee Conference (2020-09-28)
• Composite Index of Economic Activity grew by 3.6 percent for July 2020 - BoG (2020-09-28)
• The banking industry reforms litmus test (2020-09-24)
• Government replaces no-interest bonds with cash (2020-09-23)
• BoG’s MPC commences three-day meeting to evaluate Ghana’s economy (2020-09-22)
• All depositors of failed MFI, S&L companies to receive full cash payment from today (2020-09-16)
• John Mahama never borrowed from BoG to finance budget – Isaac Adongo (2020-09-11)
• NPP adopted a wrong approach in the financial sector clean-up – NDC (2020-09-08)
• Financial sector clean-up: We have cleaned the mess we inherited – Akufo-Addo (2020-09-01)
• Insolvency Act to deal with bad loans burden (2020-08-28)
• Act quickly to address early signs of bank distress – BoG to shareholders, bank boards (2020-08-28)
• Post-coronavirus: Strong corporate insolvency regime critical to spur recovery – BoG (2020-08-27)
• FULL TEXT: Second Deputy BoG Governor speaks on Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Act (2020-08-27)
• BoG alarmed by rising fraud involving bank staff (2020-08-14)
• Over 96% of locked-up funds in collapsed banks ‘fully paid’ – Deputy Finance Minister (2020-07-29)
• About 18,000 Ghanaians have died over banking cleanup – ASEPA (2020-06-24)
• Gov’t plans to issue GH¢17,837 securities – BoG announces (2020-06-16)
• Financial inclusion: BoG to launch major initiatives (2020-06-12)
• UT bank case: Give your evidence to Amoabeng – Court orders AG (2020-05-28)
• More banks’ deposits given as loans (2020-04-30)
• BoG warns of imminent inflationary risks (2020-04-29)
• Pain for pensioners over BoG’s dividend directive (2020-04-27)
• High operational costs impede electronic payment drive – BoG (2020-03-25)
• Ghana’s payment system records rapid transformation – BoG Governor (2020-03-05)
• We won’t pay you now – Gov’t to customers of Gold Coast, AllTime, other closed fund managers (2020-02-26)
• BoG measures to prevent another banking crisis encouraging – Akufo-Addo (2020-02-22)
• Court discharges Kofi Amoabeng (2020-02-05)
• Bank of Ghana maintains monetary policy rate at 16 percent (2020-01-31)
• New Cedi notes part of reforms – BoG (2020-01-12)
• NDC gov’t will investigate new Cedi note issuance – Minority (2020-01-06)
• It's 'absurdity' – Bobie on BoG's 'not fit and proper' excuse for Heritage Bank shutdown (2019-12-08)
• Be courageous and intrusive – BoG boss to journalists (2019-12-03)
• Banks with the best interests for savings accounts in Ghana (2019-11-29)
• Rural banking sector is stable – BoG (2019-11-21)
• Ghana's rural banking sector is stable – BoG (2019-11-21)
• 347 dead MFIs: Receiver increases capped payments to GHS20K (2019-11-11)
• Ato Essien sues Bank of Ghana (2019-09-27)
• ‘I was targeted’ – Kofi Amoabeng speaks on the closure of his bank (2019-09-20)
• Let’s be extra vigilante on banks – BoG Governor (2019-09-16)
• Blame NDC for job losses in banking sector – Jeff Konadu (2019-09-14)
• Court gives respondents three days to react to Nduom’s claims (2019-09-07)
• Poor BOG supervision caused banking crisis – Mahama confesses (2019-09-05)
• Fixing banking crisis costing tax payers more than GH14bn – Gabby Otchere-Darko (2019-08-28)
• Elmina plans demo to save Nduom’s GN Savings & Loans (2019-08-22)
• Banking Sector: Deputy Minister predicts possible doom for NPP (2019-08-21)
• BoG’s $62m cash transfer claim false – Nduom (2019-08-17)
• GCB, ADB, others record huge gains (2019-08-03)
• BoG fines Barclays GH¢4.58m over 'frivolous' interbank quotes (2019-06-03)
• Bank of Ghana unable to state cost of impending Cedi note upgrade (2019-04-10)
• BoG is a lawless entity - Isaac Adongo (2019-03-08)
• We’ll reject GH¢2b GAT loan for struggling banks – Minority (2019-03-07)
• Federation of Labour heads to court over use of private funds to support ‘ailing’ banks (2019-01-21)
• Moody’s lauds banking sector reforms (2019-01-17)
• 'Kwesi Botchwey says you're lying'; I hope nobody 'manipulating' you – Adom-Otchere tells BoG governor (2019-01-10)
• You also have a bank; the future awaits you – Adongo to Ofori-Atta (2019-01-08)
• 23 banks operating after recapitalization – BoG (2019-01-07)
• Rural Banks cry over ‘killer’ tax (2018-12-21)
• Your deposits safe – Bawumia (2018-11-28)
• Capital requirement: Many banks close, others merging – BoG (2018-11-26)
• Produce ID before buying or selling dollars – BOG (2018-11-01)
• Collapsed banks: BoG action difficult but necessary – Akufo-Addo (2018-09-29)
• Bank Crisis: Retired BoG staff facing EOCO – BoG (2018-09-25)
• Merge to become bigger and stronger - Financial expert tells banks (2018-09-21)
• Banks closure will ensure sanity in the sector – BoG (2018-09-19)
• We don’t need 34 banks; financial sector being clean up – Ken Ofori-Atta (2018-08-22)
• George Quaye appointed new MenzGold Ghana PRO (2018-08-09)
• CBG 'fiscal fraud on taxpayers' – Adongo (2018-08-09)
• PMMC has lost rights to license gold dealers - Lawyer reveals (2018-08-09)
• Menzgold dares Bank of Ghana (2018-08-08)
• Banks closure: BoG Governor should apologise to Ghanaians – Adom-Otchere (2018-08-05)
• 'It’s not a merger'; the banks were already 'kaput' – Joe Jackson (2018-08-02)
• Employ sound governance practices to safeguard customers’ deposits – BoG Governor (2018-06-23)
• Corporate chieftains acquire world class expertise as 3rd Ghana CEO Summit ends (2018-06-04)
• ADB promises innovative banking products (2018-05-31)
• BoG introduces Payment Systems & Services Bill (2018-05-18)
• Ghana bags US$2.2bn from remittances; places second in Sub Saharan Africa (2018-04-26)
• Fidelity Bank closes in on GH¢400m (2018-04-24)
• BoG sets maiden Ghana Reference Rate at 16.82% (2018-04-04)
• Customers chase ASN Financial Services Limited for cash (2018-03-23)
• BoG to slow monetary policy easing – GN Research (2018-02-12)
• Central Bank to insure deposits at all banks (2018-02-07)
• Banks’ revenue will decline amid slower loan growth – Moody’s (2018-01-31)
• Dealing in bitcoin not a crime - Cryptocurrency operators (2018-01-24)
• BoG stays policy rate over inflation scare (2018-01-23)
• Spare BoG this ignoble practice (2018-01-12)
• Ace Ankomah's wife to be appointed 2nd Deputy Governor of BoG? (2018-01-07)
• BoG Deputy Governor quits at last (2018-01-05)
• Johnson Asiama has not resigned as 2nd Deputy Governor of BoG (2017-12-12)
• Deposit-taking Oboanipa Ventures not licensed – BoG (2017-10-17)
• BOG Governor urges statistics compilers to enhance knowledge (2017-10-16)
• GHC400m capital: Fidelity Bank interested in merging (2017-10-09)
• GN Bank will meet GHC400m capital requirement - Nduom (2017-09-13)
• Only 3 banks in line to meet capital requirements (2017-09-12)
• BoG to raise GHC858m tomorrow (2017-09-07)
• Digitise or go extinct in a decade - Bank of Ghana tells banks (2017-07-10)
• Banks deposits hit GHC53.2b (2017-04-06)
• Keli Gadzekpo, Ernest Addison in race for BoG job (2017-03-30)
• Bank of Ghana is Central Bank Risk Manager of the Year 2017 (2017-02-20)
• New BoG Foreign exchange auction rules (2016-11-25)
• Banks tighten grip on lending (2016-09-15)
• Dont' create panic in the banking and finacial markets - BoG (2016-08-30)
• Mobile money value tops GHC679.2million in June (2016-08-27)
• BoG to weed out unscrupulous microfinance institutions (2016-08-19)
• BoG to approve interest on Mobile Money deposits (2016-08-11)
• BoG's policy to fight inflation crippling businesses - CEBRE (2016-08-09)
• Terkper outwits IMF over zero BoG financing (2016-08-05)
• BoG armed to bail-out troubled banks, NBFIs (2016-08-04)