taken over<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the management of uniBank.<\/p>\nAccording to the central bank, it took the decision to save uniBank from collapse.<\/p>\n
The BoG in a statement said, KPMG, as the official administrator, will play the key role of assuming control of the bank and all its branches and \u201ccarry out the responsibilities of the shareholders, directors, and key management personnel of uniBank.\u201d<\/p>\n
It stated that during the period of official administration of uniBank, \u201cthe bank will remain open for business under the management and control of KPMG overseen by the Bank of Ghana,\u00a0and is not being closed and liquidated.\u201d<\/p>\n
uniBank was found to have persistently maintained a negative capital adequacy ratio below zero making it technically insolvent.<\/p>\n
This contravened the 10% minimum capital adequacy ratio required.<\/p>\n
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uniBank also suffered liquidity shortfalls and consistently breached its cash reserve requirement.<\/p>\n
As a result, uniBank relied extensively on liquidity support of over GHS 2.2 billion from the Bank of Ghana over the past two years to meet its recurring liabilities.<\/p>\n
The BoG revealed that uniBank had failed to comply with a directive from the BoG to stop granting new loans whilst also and deliberately concealing some liabilities from its balance sheet.<\/p>\n
uniBank also failed to comply with several other regulatory requirements, including lending to a number of borrowers in excess of its regulatory lending limit.<\/p>\n
Before all this, uniBank was one of nine banks identified after the asset quality review exercise undertaken in 2016, to be significantly under-capitalized with a capital asset ratio of 4.75%.<\/p>\n
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