{"id":1092801,"date":"2022-05-19T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/demand-apr-on-your-loan-bog-advises-bank-customers-banking-finance\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:21:56","slug":"demand-apr-on-your-loan-bog-advises-bank-customers-banking-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/demand-apr-on-your-loan-bog-advises-bank-customers-banking-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand APR On Your Loan &#8211; BoG Advises Bank Customers | Banking\/Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has asked commercial banks in the country to provide Annualize Percentage Rate (APR) to customers who are seeking facilities from the financial institutions since that is a legal requirement.<\/p>\n<p>APR is the yearly interest generated by a sum that\u2019s charged to borrowers or paid to investors.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank also urged customers to demand from their financial institutions the APR before they sign on their loan contracts.<\/p>\n<p>This, the regulator said, would help them know how much the loan will cost after the duration.<\/p>\n<p>In its financial literacy series, the BoG said \u201cAlways demand the annualize percentage Rate (APR) on your loan from your financial institution prior to acceptance of the loan facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will help you know how much the loan will cost you after the duration of the loan it is a legal requirement for your financial institution to provide you this information before you sign on your loan contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Daily Guide<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has asked commercial banks in the country to provide Annualize Percentage Rate (APR) to customers who are seeking facilities from the financial institutions since that is a legal requirement. APR is the yearly interest generated by a sum that\u2019s charged to borrowers or paid to investors. The central bank also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2151,14237,557,6026,1084,4279,1155,659],"class_list":["post-1092801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-advises","tag-apr","tag-bank","tag-bankingfinance","tag-bog","tag-customers","tag-demand","tag-loan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}