{"id":1217453,"date":"2022-10-06T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/ankobra-rural-bank-plc-increases-profit\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:28:29","slug":"ankobra-rural-bank-plc-increases-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/ankobra-rural-bank-plc-increases-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankobra Rural Bank PLC Increases Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr Frank Boateng<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ankobra Rural Bank PLC profit after tax for 2021 stood at GH\u00a2253,255.00, as compared to GH\u00a2148,686.00 for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the operating income of the bank for 2021 also stood at GH\u00a24,239,400.00, as compared to GH\u00a23,097,301 for the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Bank made significant gains, the Board of Directors would not ask for an increase in the Board\u2019s fees.<\/p>\n<p>The Board Chairman of the bank Dr. Frank Boateng announced this at the Bank\u2019s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Esiama.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that it had also become increasingly necessary to build some reserves for the bank as a shield against any unexpected events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this will help make our Bank stronger, and enable us to pay dividends in the next year,\u201d the Board Chairman told the shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the issue of loan delinquency has been critically looked at, \u201cAnd in the future, this will not constitute a menace to your cherished Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, inadequately paid-up -capital continued to be one of the most difficult areas of the Bank\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Board, he said, had noted this grave concern, which impedes the need to undertake possible branch expansion.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the board had, therefore, re-equipped management to improve on its share mobilisation strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Change Of Name<\/p>\n<p>He said the bank which used to be Ankobra West Rural Bank, is now known as the Ankobra West Bank Public Limited Company (PLC) in compliance with the Companies Act.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u201dThe Bank, at the end of 2021, had more than 5,140 shareholders, satisfying the Act making it eligible to carry the PLC inscription\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Frank Boateng The Ankobra Rural Bank PLC profit after tax for 2021 stood at GH\u00a2253,255.00, as compared to GH\u00a2148,686.00 for 2020. Additionally, the operating income of the bank for 2021 also stood at GH\u00a24,239,400.00, as compared to GH\u00a23,097,301 for the previous year. Even though the Bank made significant gains, the Board of Directors would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[24171,557,1320,560,3538,1278],"class_list":["post-1217453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ankobra","tag-bank","tag-increases","tag-plc","tag-profit","tag-rural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217453","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=1217453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}