{"id":1181066,"date":"2022-08-17T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/we-havent-banned-dollar-account-bog\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:27:30","slug":"we-havent-banned-dollar-account-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/17\/we-havent-banned-dollar-account-bog\/","title":{"rendered":"We haven\u2019t banned dollar account \u2013 BoG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"467\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1660732050_675_bog_boss_ernest-696x467.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"bog_boss_ernest\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Ernest Addison, BoG Governor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana has dismissed reports that it has banned the opening of dollar accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In a public notice, the Central Bank said it has not issued any directive to local banks in this regard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Public Notice: Bank of Ghana has not issued any directive to local banks to stop the opening of new dollar accounts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ileuPgxBFT\">pic.twitter.com\/ileuPgxBFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bank of Ghana (@thebankofghana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebankofghana\/status\/1559218099789959169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Media reports had indicated that the Central Bank in a desperate measure to prevent the cedi from further depreciating halted local banks from opening dollar accounts for customers without written express permission.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The reports further said the move, however, was not part of the measures the Central Bank is taking to arrest the free fall of the cedi.<\/p>\n<p>But the regulator of the banking industry has described the reports as false and therefore customers must disregard them.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"sMFd4tXZrv4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (16-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMFd4tXZrv4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ernest Addison, BoG Governor The Bank of Ghana has dismissed reports that it has banned the opening of dollar accounts. In a public notice, the Central Bank said it has not issued any directive to local banks in this regard. Public Notice: Bank of Ghana has not issued any directive to local banks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4403,1915,1084,4219,6977],"class_list":["post-1181066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-account","tag-banned","tag-bog","tag-dollar","tag-havent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181066","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=1181066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}