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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has said that it is working tirelessly this month to stop fraud-related activities in the country’s payment systems. The First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Maxwell Opoku-Afari, told…
The value of retail payments (excluding cash) increased by 43.18 per cent to GH¢381.43 billion in 2017 from GH¢266.39 billion in 2016. This growth in the value electronic retail payments for the year under review,…
The Bank of Ghana will revoke the license of any financial technology company that fails to comply with regulatory requirements outlined in the new payment systems and services bill. The FinTechs are expected to be…
The largest telecom operator, MTN, has launched an Initial Public Offer aimed at raising 3.47 billion cedis from shares. Every Ghanaian has the opportunity to own shares in the company. Priced at GHC 0.75 per…
The 2018 Ghana Information, Technology & Telecom Awards in its 8th year is set to honour leading players in the Fintech industry. The emergence of Fintech in Ghana has sparked a tremendous increase in domestic…
Close to 100,000 Ghanaians have subscribed to making personal pension contributions through MTN Mobile Money and United Pensions Trust’s personal pension scheme dubbed ‘My Own Pension’. With over 80 per cent of Ghana’s labour force…
Today, the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has launched the first mobile money payments interoperability system in Ghana. Interoperability is the ability for customers to undertake money transfers between two accounts at different mobile money companies or to…
Ghana has concluded discussions with renowned online payments system Paypal and will, therefore, if all goes well, become one of the Paypal-compliant countries soon, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. The Vice President made…
Telecoms giant, MTN is working to deploy machines that could take deposits and dispense cash for its mobile money business. JoyBusiness has gathered that MTN has already secured the self-servicing kiosk, but with limited functions…
Is your fintech startup ready to work with one of Africa’s biggest banks, one with operations across 36 countries on the continent? Then you have until 23 May to apply for the 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The challenge…
