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Union Savings and Loans has been issued a provisional banking license by the Bank of Ghana.<\/p>\n

The development paves way for Union Savings and loans to begin operations as a universal bank.<\/p>\n

Citi Business News has gathered the license was issued in December 2015.<\/p>\n

Ghana will now have 30 universal banks from the 29 recorded last year.<\/p>\n

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

Citi Business News has learnt Union Savings and Loans hopes to begin operations as a universal bank by June 2016.<\/p>\n

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By:\u00a0 Norvan Acquah – Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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