Tag: Banking
Challenges faced by Ghanaians with Traditional Banks and the Need for...
Banks and banking services were introduced to provide access to finance and the safekeeping of valuables. The concept of banking in Ghana has gradually...
Partnerships for Progress: Collaboration between banks and FinTechs is the future...
Historically, the formal banking sector’s penetration in Africa has been relatively low. And, while there has been significant improvement in this area in recent...
Nigeria moves to improve banking, digital finance services
If there’s anything Nigeria’s cash crisis revealed, it’s that there’s no best or worst Nigerian online banking service: they’re all equally unreliable.
And the Nigerian parliament wants...
CIB Ghana set to redesign academic curricular
Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana has said plans are underway to redesign the Institute’s academic curriculum to create more opportunities of qualified bankers, develop...
CIB Ghana churns out 620 Chartered Bankers last 3 years
Chartered Institute of Bankers Ghana continues to support the banking industry’s sustainability through human capital development. As part of delivering on its mandate to...
Afreximbank launches AfPAY to enhance international trade payments
African Export-Import Bank — Afreximbank — has launched a trade payment service dubbed AfPAY, an intervention designed to facilitate the settlement of international trade on...
Ecobank launches Fintech Challenge with US$50,000 prize money up for grabs
Pan-African banking group Ecobank Group has launched the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge with a call on African Fintech entrepreneurs to take...
UBA begins banking operations in Dubai
One of Africa's biggest banks, the United Bank for Africa (UBA), which has been in operation for over seven decades with a presence in...
Airtel launches banking services in Nigeria
Airtel Africa has added banking services to its portfolio of Smartcash Payment Service Bank services in Nigeria, building on a domestic remittance-based set-up launched...
UK to introduce new rules to preserve cash and reimburse fraud...
The UK Government is to introduce new legislation to protect access to cash and to require banks to refund victims of authorised push payment...