{"id":180794,"date":"2016-01-11T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=180794"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:11:42","slug":"union-savings-loans-gets-banking-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=180794","title":{"rendered":"Union Savings &#038; Loans gets banking license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Savings and Loans has been issued a provisional banking license by the Bank of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The development paves way for Union Savings and loans to begin operations as a universal bank.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Business News has gathered the license was issued in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will now have 30 universal banks from the 29 recorded last year.<\/p>\n<p>Union savings and loan will now have to meet the 120 million cedis minimum capital to operate a universal bank as against the 15 million cedis for a savings and loan company.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Business News has learnt Union Savings and Loans hopes to begin operations as a universal bank by June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Norvan Acquah &#8211; Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Savings and Loans has been issued a provisional banking license by the Bank of Ghana. The development paves way for Union Savings and loans to begin operations as a universal bank. Citi Business News has gathered the license was issued in December 2015. Ghana will now have 30 universal banks from the 29 recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}