{"id":239459,"date":"2026-07-25T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gcpcu-cuts-loan-rate-to-15-percent-to-ease-members-burden\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:36:45","slug":"ghana-gcpcu-cuts-loan-rate-to-15-percent-to-ease-members-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gcpcu-cuts-loan-rate-to-15-percent-to-ease-members-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GCPCU Cuts Loan Rate to 15 Percent to Ease Members&#8217; Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Ghana Co-operative Pharmacists Credit Union (GCPCU) has reduced its loan interest rate from nearly 25 per cent to 15 per cent in a move aimed at improving members&#8217; access to affordable credit and strengthening their financial well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Board Chairman of the Credit Union and President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Dr Paul Owusu Donkor, announced the decision at the Union&#8217;s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Accra last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The meeting, on the theme: &#8216;Leveraging Credit Union&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240737.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 Ghana Co-operative Pharmacists Credit Union (GCPCU) has reduced its loan interest rate from nearly 25 per cent to 15 per cent in a move aimed at improving members&#8217; access to affordable credit and strengthening their financial well-being. The Board Chairman of the Credit Union and President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Dr Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6766,7210,5985,54945,4508,4509,8828,4326,257,6720,7170,254],"class_list":["post-239459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burden","tag-cuts","tag-ease","tag-gcpcu","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-loan","tag-members","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rate","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239459","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=239459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}