{"id":347829,"date":"2017-08-24T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347829"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:42:29","slug":"bog-cautions-public-against-online-scheme-monidoubla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=347829","title":{"rendered":"BoG cautions public against online scheme \u2018MONIDOUBLA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Ghana has cautioned the public to stay away from doing any business with the online financial scheme; MONIDOUBLA.<\/p>\n<p>The said entity\u2019s operations involve mobilizing funds and making payments to its community members via mobile money platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank in a statement copied to\u00a0<strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0on Thursday said that MONIDOUBLA is not licensed to engage in any form of deposit-taking business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bank of Ghana wishes to inform the general public that MONIDOUBLA is NOT LICENSED by the BANK to engage in any form of deposit-taking business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, anyone who does business with MONIDOUBLA does so at his or her own risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, the central bank\u2019s maintains that its investigations indicate that online scheme is flouting the provisions of the Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions Act and also threatens the safety and soundness of the financial system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entity\u2019s operations are contrary to section 6(1) of the Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930), and also threatens the safety and soundness of the financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Ghana has cautioned the public to stay away from doing any business with the online financial scheme; MONIDOUBLA. The said entity\u2019s operations involve mobilizing funds and making payments to its community members via mobile money platforms. The central bank in a statement copied to\u00a0Citi Business News\u00a0on Thursday said that MONIDOUBLA is not [&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":[121,32,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347829","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=347829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}