Ghana’s emerging regulatory framework for digital assets is encouraging banks, Fintechs and other financial institutions to take stablecoins more seriously,
Capital market operators are urging government to permanently exempt gains on Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE)-listed securities from capital gains tax (CGT),
IC Asset Managers (Ghana) Ltd. has launched IC Wealth on the MTN MoMo app, giving millions of mobile money customers direct access to the firm’s regulated investment products from their mobile phones.
The government has issued a GH¢5 billion recapitalisation bond to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to begin restoring the central bank’s equity, which was pushed into negative territory by the 2023 Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
The Bank of Ghana has introduced an educational observership programme that gives university students unprecedented access to its monetary policy process, as part of efforts to deepen understanding of central banking among future economists, researchers and policymakers.
Investors are expected to judge Ghana’s 2026 Mid-Year Budget Review less by new policy announcements than whether government reaffirms its commitment to fiscal discipline, as rising inflation begins to test macroeconomic gains achieved under the country’s IMF-supported reform programme.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana has forecast that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) will cut the monetary policy rate down to between 12 and 13 percent by early 2027, while the cedi will expectedly depreciate gradually to GH¢13 against the US dollar by end-2026.
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