{"id":408973,"date":"2018-03-12T05:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408973"},"modified":"2018-03-12T06:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:35:53","slug":"banks-positions-on-meeting-new-capital-requirement-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408973","title":{"rendered":"Banks\u2019 positions on meeting new capital requirement (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just nine months left for banks to meet the minimum capital requirement set by the Bank of Ghana, some banks have confirmed to\u00a0<strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0they are in good position to meet the requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank increased the minimum capital requirement for banks from 120 to 400 million Ghana cedis to enhance the financial position of banks.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the possible options available to banks that have not yet met the requirement?<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Ayorkor Aryee and Lawrence Segbefia have been speaking to some industry watchers who believe mergers may be inevitable eventually.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;166&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; frameborder=&quot;no&quot; allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/412247991&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to listen to full audio report<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/412247991&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lawrence Segbefia &amp; Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just nine months left for banks to meet the minimum capital requirement set by the Bank of Ghana, some banks have confirmed to\u00a0Citi Business News\u00a0they are in good position to meet the requirement. The Central Bank increased the minimum capital requirement for banks from 120 to 400 million Ghana cedis to enhance the financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":378185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,32,171,11],"tags":[1144,2002,10937],"class_list":["post-408973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories","tag-bog","tag-ghana-business-news","tag-minimum-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408973","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=408973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}