Articles from the ‘Financial Institutions’ category
Posted by Contributor on November 9, 2009 at 9:57 am in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – Mr Eric Osei-Bonsu, Managing Director of ARB Apex Bank Limited, cautioned managers of Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) of activities of fraudsters who were duping banks nationwide. He said the fraudsters deceptively generated credit advices and forged Apex Bank stamps and signatures of RCB officials. Mr Osei-Bonsu said this in an [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 9:43 am in Feature Articles, Financial Institutions
The voice of Reason: The Security Officers At The Banks’ Entrances: Who Are They Protecting? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A PUBLIC SAFETY SECURITY SYSTEM which offers no protection for the people it is supposedly designed to protect? What about the one that makes the enforcer vulnerable and a target of armed robbers’ vengeance? If [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 6, 2009 at 10:03 am in Business, Financial Institutions
Ghana stands the risk of being blacklisted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) if the country throws caution to the wind and adopts a financial regime which has all the characteristics of a tax haven arising out of moves to become a full-scale Offshore Financial Centre. Followers of the Ghanaian reform system [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 5, 2009 at 11:34 am in Business, Financial Institutions
The Independent newspaper can state without equivocation that the Mills administration has settled on renowned banker, Mr John Kofi Mensah as the new Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB). Mr. Kofi Mensah is currently the Deputy Managing Director of Unibank, one of the leading private banks in the country. What is now left is [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 4, 2009 at 10:57 am in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – The Cedi marked its second day of gains this week on the inter-bank market with the Gold coast Securities Cedi Index appreciating to its best level in over three weeks. The local currency gained 0.34 per cent because of the rise it experienced against all four major trading partners. The Cedi [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 10:53 am in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – Mr Duke Osam-Duodu, Deputy Managing Director of the ARB APEX Bank, has called on Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) to adopt effective strategies to enable them to compete favourably in the banking industry. He said strategies such as looking for more avenues to invest their excess funds and mergers with other banks [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 2, 2009 at 1:54 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – Rural banks have been urged to position themselves adequately to confront the challenges posed by the emerging technological advancement in the banking industry. Mr Eric Osei-Bonsu, Managing Director of the ARB Apex Bank, made the call in an address read for him at the sixth Annual General Meeting of Bonzali Rural Bank [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 1, 2009 at 6:25 pm in Business, Financial Institutions
GNA – The Association of Rural Banks (ARBs) Apex Bank Limited would soon launch its star product, “Apex Link Money Transfer,” onto an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform to make banking services efficient, fast, safe and secure. Mr Eric Osei-Bonsu, Managing Director of Apex Bank Limited, announced this at the 15th Annual General Meeting [...]
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