Banking & Finance

The Central Bank has launched a domestic gold purchasing programme to augment its foreign reserves with a view to doubling its gold holdings in its...

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria have become top of the agenda for bank loans to commodity traders, as lenders increasingly demand to see climate...

Monetary Policy initiatives and development by the Central Bank of Nigeria has helped prevent a severe credit crunch in the private sector, according to the...

The World Bank Group is looking to deepen regional integration on the African Continent with an updated Regional Integration and Cooperation Assistance Strategy (RICAS) for the continent....

The Bank of Ghana (BoG), has cautioned forex bureaux across the country against engaging in forex forward or forward exchange rate trading. According to the...

The World Bank has blamed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s management of the foreign exchange regime as the reason for the FX crisis currently being...

Government, for the first quarter of this year, spent approximately Ghs 15.6 billion as interest payments on debts taken and compensation or wages of public...

The erudite Journalist on cash-in-transit heist Anneliese Burgess describes the phenomenon of cash-in-transit heist in the following apocalyptic summary; "The nature of criminal conduct is...

China has taken a major step in its central bank digital currency (CBDC) tests. The country just debuted and successfully launched blockchain-enabled salary payments with...

African economies are at a pivotal juncture. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought economic activity to a standstill. Africa’s hard-won economic gains of the last two...