{"id":183347,"date":"2024-10-26T06:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T04:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bogs-ecedi-wins-innovation-in-digital-currency-design-award\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T04:48:59","slug":"ghana-bogs-ecedi-wins-innovation-in-digital-currency-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bogs-ecedi-wins-innovation-in-digital-currency-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: BoG&#8217;s Ecedi Wins Innovation in Digital Currency Design Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has been adjudged the winner in Innovation in Digital Currency Design for financial inclusion in view of the Bank&#8217;s introduction of eCedi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The eCedi is a digital version of the Ghana Cedi issued directly by the BoG as a legal tender and is meant to promote digital inclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This was during the recent 2024 Payment and Innovation Week programme recently held in London and organised by the Currency Research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The objective of the programme was to explore trends and research in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has been adjudged the winner in Innovation in Digital Currency Design for financial inclusion in view of the Bank&#8217;s introduction of eCedi. The eCedi is a digital version of the Ghana Cedi issued directly by the BoG as a legal tender and is meant to promote digital inclusion. This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5692,31921,9987,9238,9633,49827,4508,4509,7467,257,254,6552],"class_list":["post-183347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-award","tag-bogs","tag-currency","tag-design","tag-digital","tag-ecedi","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-innovation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}