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The Ghana Union of Traders Association commended Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama for stabilising the cedi and taming inflation. The cedi appreciated 40 percent in 2025. Inflation fell from 23.5 percent to 3.2 percent in fifteen months. The policy rate has been cut by 1,500 basis points.
GSA CEO Ransford Gyampo says 75 percent of importers have little or no knowledge of cargo insurance requirements. The local coverage mandate under Section 222 of the Insurance Act took effect on 1 February. Compliance is nowhere near where it needs to be.
MobileMoney Fintech Ltd hosted its inaugural stakeholder summit in Accra, bringing together the Bank of Ghana, GhIPSS, and the Ghana Police Service. A 30-day intervention rollout and 90-day command centre framework were agreed.
The seed round was led by VoLo Earth Ventures. Refiant's compression technology shrinks a 120-billion-parameter model to run on 12GB of RAM, using 80 percent less energy. The implications for African deployment are obvious.
Mark Smithson and Jo Ann Sackey from the UK Department for Business and Trade visited Hubtel's Accra offices on 9 April. The discussions covered market entry support and capital market opportunities. Hubtel generates $110 million in annual revenue and has never taken external funding.
The National Identification Authority issued a clarification on April 8 after a week of media reports and social media chatter claiming the card had been activated for financial transactions. It has not been. The integration conversations are real but unfinished.
Blewett got 21,382 MTN Group shares worth $252,000. Kwofie got 13,660 worth $160,000. The grants are part of MTN Group's $9.5 million round of executive performance share allocations under the 2010 plan, vesting through December 2028.
Philip Twum, Head of Business Development at Fido, won Young Fintech Leader of the Year at the 5th Ghana Fintech Awards.
The ten-year national spectrum management framework will govern how frequencies are priced, allocated, and shared as 5G licensing begins.
Shaibu Haruna is leading MobileMoney Fintech Limited as CEO following its launch as a standalone entity on 31 March.
MMFL, GhIPSS, Bank of Ghana, and Stanbic Bank executives met on 2 April to build a joint approach to organised digital fraud.
Victoria Bright appointed board chair of MobileMoney Fintech Ltd as MTN Ghana completes MoMo structural separation.