Banking & Finance

The recently released Guaranty Trust Bank unaudited Financial Results for the period ended March 31, 2021 is a reflection of the resilience of the bank’s franchise,...

Nigerian banks’ dominance of their home turf is virtually unparalleled. Largely protected by regulators from foreign competition, Nigerian lenders control 94% of their domestic market, by...

Bank credit quality materially outperformed early pandemic expectations due to the significant boost to personal income levels as a result of federal stimulus that provided...

Shareholders of Republic Bank Ghana PLC, on Thursday, April 22, 2021, re-elected current members of the bank’s Board of Directors to continue serving as Directors...

Fitch Ratings believes disclosures made by Singapore’s Grab Holdings as part of its planned US listing via a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) support our view...

Western EU banks’ 2Q21 results will start to reveal the true extent of asset quality deterioration due to the pandemic, Fitch Ratings says in a...

Banking sectors around the world face contrasting post-pandemic prospects given the uneven recovery in operating environments (OEs) across jurisdictions, Fitch Ratings says. Fitch’s bank OEs,...

The effectiveness and resilience of Ghana’s financial services inclusion efforts, according to the first Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Maxwell Opoku-Afari, was...

African governments and policymakers are pushing National Development Banks (NDBs) to play a greater policy role in the financing of the UN's ambitious 2030 Agenda...

Many of the reported results of the largest U.S. banks thus far for 1Q21 have once again been supported by exceptionally strong trading and investment...