AfCFTA forum recommends investment in standardisation infrastructure
March 12, 2021 Prof. Alex Dodoo(right) speaking at the programme Photo Victor A. Buxton
Participants in a forum on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) have recommended investment in Ghana’s standardisation infrastructure to support businesses to take advantage of the Agreement.
They argued that without a stringent standardisation infrastructure, Ghana stood the risk of having its export produce rejected by member countries and becoming a dumping ground for inferior goods from other states.
The participants included Professor Alex Dodoo, Director General of the Ghana Standards Authority; John Awuah, Chief Executive (CEO) of the Ghana Association of Bankers; Seth Twum Akwaboah, CEO of Association of Ghana Industries; ,Joseph Obeng, President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA); and Nlaliban Wujangi, CEO of Agriculture and More (Agmore) Limited.
Ghana-Press-Review March 12, 2021 to 10:31 298 APA – Accra (Ghana) The official launch the eTradeHubs portal by the International Chamber of Commerce in partnership with West Blue Consulting, United Parcel Services and Trade Law Center and additional responsibility of the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs as interim Minister of Finance are some of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Friday,
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in partnership with West Blue Consulting, United Parcel Services (UPS), Trade Law Center (TRALAC) have officially launched the eTradeHubs portal, www.etradehubs.com.
The eTradeHubs portal is a one-stop for Trade Tools, Information & Collaboration which aims to reduce the time and cost of doing business by supporting businesses at all levels of maturity - the micro enterprise to the multinational.
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has urged all banks in the country to build robust systems to forestall cybersecurity incidences in the financial sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has indisputably changed the way we do business at Zenith Bank and our interactions with stakeholders – not the least in the digitisation of our banking services. With the rollout of a digital retail strategy aimed at driving financial inclusion, we embarked on an aggressive retail marketing and digital banking drive. As a result, Zenith Bank – which is well known for its prowess in developing innovative digital banking products and services – ensured that its customers enjoyed convenient, easy and accessible banking services tailor-made to their needs, since the outbreak of the pandemic.
When Ghana recorded its first case of COVID-19, we were well ahead of our peers in ensuring easy access to banking. Products that drive financial inclusion – such as our USSD Code product ( 966#) – were enhanced to enable more customers who hitherto did not have bank accounts carry out banking transactions seamlessly.
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