{"id":225044,"date":"2026-02-25T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-vasps-cautioned-over-unlawful-virtual-assets-stable-coins-advertisement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:12:09","slug":"ghana-vasps-cautioned-over-unlawful-virtual-assets-stable-coins-advertisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-vasps-cautioned-over-unlawful-virtual-assets-stable-coins-advertisement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Vasps Cautioned Over Unlawful Virtual Assets, Stable Coins Advertisement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have cautioned Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) to desist from advertising virtual assets and stable coins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to the two organisations, there were increasing advertisement of virtual asset and stable coin products, including the use of large billboards in Accra and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a joint statement issued by the BoG and SEC in Accra on Friday and copied to The Ghanaian Times, directed the all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240713.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) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have cautioned Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) to desist from advertising virtual assets and stable coins. According to the two organisations, there were increasing advertisement of virtual asset and stable coin products, including the use of large billboards in Accra and other parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225045,"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":[48943,258,256,9917,16092,20449,4508,4509,257,254,10653,11909,53759,21659],"class_list":["post-225044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-advertisement","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assets","tag-cautioned","tag-coins","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stable","tag-unlawful","tag-vasps","tag-virtual"],"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\/225044","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=225044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}