Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said government will protect the deposit of depositors in licensed financial institutions in the process of sanitising the financial system.
Dr Bawumia said this in his keynote address at the 22nd Annual National Banking Conference of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana, in Accra on Tuesday, 27 November 2018.
“In the process of sanitising the banking sector, we have to be very cognisant of the fact that we have to protect depositors of the licensed financial institutions,” he stated adding that “The sanitisation of the financial system cannot be at the expense of depositors because we need the confidence of the depositors to maintain the stability of the system.”
Governor of the central bank, Dr Ernest Addison, has said many banks are close to meeting the Bank of Ghana's GHS400 million Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR) as the 31 December 2018 deadline approaches.
Dr Addison also said the BoG is monitoring the savings and loans as well as the microfinance sphere to mop up the “distressed institutions in the sector” with the help of the Ministry of Finance.
Ahead of the deadline, seven local banks have already gone under.
They include UT Bank and Capital Bank, which were taken over by the state-owned GCB Bank in August 2017.
In August 2018, five other struggling local banks: The Beige Bank, The Royal Bank, The Construction Bank, uniBank and Sovereign Bank, were all put together to form the all-new state-owned Consolidated Bank Ghana (CBG).
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Same intellectually diabolical talk. Does protected mean customers will get the money back now? Same lie lie way you increase VAT to 18.1% yet you say.."No! VAT has not been increased but re-calculated". Its just amazing how politician just can't be simply honest about things. Utterly baffling!!
Dr Bawumia you are doing extremely well to ensure macroeconomic stability for our dear country. Dr some banks and FIs have already been totally run down completely by depositors amd investors leading to their virtual collapse. it would take a very strong government support to these financial institutions to win the confidence of depositors and investors back.Dr we are calling for immediate government bail out for these institutions to avert the obvious widespread effect on the people of this dear country
We appreciate all your efforts to sanitize the industry.God bless you.But my issue is that most of the customers of insolvent SAVINGS AND LOANS COMPANIES like First Allied are petty traders and young enterpreneurs so please act quickly for us because our families and businesses are collapsing.Not only that most of the affected customers are dying and others are contracting strange sicknesses. Thank you.
Some level of assurance that I will get my money at GN and Gold Coast. Thanks