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Ghana as a country is privileged to have a thriving economy with many opportunities for businesses to grow.

The Mid-Year budget of Ghana, as presented by the Minister of Finance on July 23, 2024 to parliament, is in fulfilment of Section 28 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921).

Over the past 50 years Davos has come to serve as a way station for global capital and its partners in government. Meanwhile today, frontier markets in Africa, the Middle East and further afield...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta delivered his mid-year budget speech yesterday (25 July) in a radically different register than most of his presentations between 2019 and 2022.

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) has issued rules to facilitate and regulate the issuance, admission and trading of commercial papers on the Ghana Fixed Income Market (GFIM).

In the 2023 report, we highlighted the legal and regulatory themes which we expected to impact activities within the financial services industry in 2023 and discussed the challenges and opportunities...

According to section 24 of the GIPC Act, all businesses with foreign participation are required to register with the GIPC.

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta read the Akufo-Addo government's sixth annual budget in parliament yesterday. It takes place amid severe economic pressure,...

In November 2022, the Minister for Finance (during his reading of the budget statement and economic policy of the Government for the 2023 financial year)...

Generally, carbon credits are permits for the reduction, removal or emission of limited amount of GHG.

This report explores the key projected government policies and regulatory interventions which may impact financial services, capital markets and regulated funds in 2025.

Financial institutions and other businesses, in the course of doing business, may give loans, products or services on credit.

On 24 July 2024 the Loan Market Association (the "LMA") published an exposure draft form of facility agreement which contemplates an African holding company and various...

The Development Finance Institutions Act, 2020 (Act 1032) (the "Act") was passed by the Ghanaian Parliament and received Presidential assent on 27thOctober, 2020.

The Ghana Stock Exchange has established an Over-the-Counter Market (OTC market) and issued rules for the admission and trading of securities on its OTC market. Read the provisions and expected benefits of these OTC rules to issuers and investors below...

The Ghanaian economy is slowing, and its deceleration is fairly broad-based. According to data presented by chief statistician Professor Annim, GDP growth in Q1 2022 was 3.3% year-on-year compared to 7.0% for Q4 2021.

Ghana's state-owned power generation company, the Volta River Authority (VRA), is indebted to 13 local banks and foreign financial institutions to the tune of about US$ 1.1billion as at July, 2016.