{"id":195482,"date":"2025-04-05T23:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bog-finance-ministry-discuss-clean-up-of-micro-finance-institutions-rural-banks\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:03:54","slug":"ghana-bog-finance-ministry-discuss-clean-up-of-micro-finance-institutions-rural-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-bog-finance-ministry-discuss-clean-up-of-micro-finance-institutions-rural-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: BoG, Finance Ministry Discuss Clean-Up of Micro-Finance Institutions, Rural Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is in discussions with the Ministry of Finance to initiate a clean-up of the Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs), the Governor, Dr Johnson Asiama, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The clean-up, he noted, would cover micro finance institutions (MFIs) and rural banks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">As part of the clean-up, there is expected to be mergers, acquisitions to strengthen the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Dr Asiama made this known during the 123rd Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) press conference in Accra last Friday, emphasising&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020300.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) is in discussions with the Ministry of Finance to initiate a clean-up of the Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions (SDIs), the Governor, Dr Johnson Asiama, has said. The clean-up, he noted, would cover micro finance institutions (MFIs) and rural banks. As part of the clean-up, there is expected to be mergers, acquisitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6865,12144,8023,6686,7829,4508,4509,8057,10887,6857,257,6309,254],"class_list":["post-195482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banks","tag-bog","tag-cleanup","tag-discuss","tag-finance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-institutions","tag-microfinance","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195482","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=195482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}