Banking & Finance

Vivo Energy Ghana, the Shell licensee, has once again demonstrated its commitment to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by donating over six thousand items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) …

Some senior officials in the Trump administration have agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to Huawei Technologies, at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic impacts …

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) has appointed Rahul Dhir as Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Group. Rahul will take up his appointment from 1 July 2020 and …

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited has announced that it is committing an initial GHc 1 million to support emergency relief in aid of those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in …

The Management of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) has donated 20 boxes and 100 gallons of liquid and gel sanitisers to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) and Tema …

Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs) in the country have received a major financial cushion from the Bank of Ghana, through the latest directive on the suspension of distribution of …

The unprecedented crash in global crude oil prices is putting the brakes on plans and efforts to develop the country’s next two oilfields. The situation is made worse by the …

The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) …

I have been saying for a while that this is a “crisis like no other.” It is: More complex, with interlinked shocks to our health and our economies that have …

By Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January. A rare disaster, a coronavirus pandemic, has …