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UT, Capital Bank collapse; GCB to the rescue

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August 14, 2017
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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has given GCB Bank Ltd the green light to acquire two local banks UT and Capital bank.

A statement from the central bank and copied to Citi Business News said, ‘The Bank of Ghana has approved a Purchase and Assumption transaction with GCB Bank Ltd that transfers all deposits and selected assets of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd to GCB Bank Ltd’.

According to the central bank, it has also ‘revoked the Licences of UT Bank Ltd and Capital Bank Ltd. This action has become necessary due to severe impairment of their capital’.

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The latest development is part of moves by government through the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to restructure the banking industry.

Citi Business News has gathered the remaining assets and liabilities of the two banks will be realised and settled respectively through a receivership process to be undertaken by Messers Vish Ashiagbor and Eric Nana Nipah of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

According to the central bank the main offices and branches of UT Bank and Capital Bank will be under the control of GCB bank and will be opened at 1pm today for normal business transactions.

The takeover of two banks at the same time will be the first and biggest in the history of the banking industry in Ghana.
The move is to rescue the two from further challenges as both balance sheets are currently in the red.

GCB was selected amongst 3 others on the basis of purchase price, cost of funding, branches to be retained, staff to be employed and impact on the acquiring bank’s capital adequacy ratio.

Matters Arising
Customers funds & debts
Citi Business News has learnt deposits of customers of the two banks will be protected by government as the sale is finallized.
While customers who have failed to fulfill their loan payments obligations will be highly pursued.
Staff layoffs
Top level management of the two banks including the MD’s will be loose their jobs following the development.
Its unclear the fate of the other workers of the two banks, numbering close to 2,000 in total, but Citi Business News has learnt negotiations are in place to protect those who want to still work for the distressed banks.
Two top level management staff of GCB; Sam Sarpong for UT and Socrates Afram for Capital, will step in as acting MD’s in the interim.
UT Bank’s woes
UT bank’s current challenges are linked to its high non performing loans portfolio, which has greatly affected the bank’s financial performance.

The inability of the company to disclose its financials also led to a seizure of its operations temporarily by the Ghana Stock Exchange in January 2017.

UT Bank Limited formerly known as Best Financial Services, later UT Financial Limited was incorporated on April 18, 1996 under the Companies Code, 1963 (ACT 179) as a private limited liability company.

On February 19, 1997, the Bank of Ghana formally granted the company a license to operate as a non-bank financial institution and a certificate to commence business on April 24, 1997.

UT Bank was founded by Prince Kofi Amoabeng and Joseph Nsonamoah on April 18, 1996 and is headquartered at Airport, in Accra, Ghana.
The company currently employs 710 persons.

As at Monday morning, the shares of UT Bank were trading at 6 pesewas.

Capital Bank

Capital bank gained a license to become a bank in August 2013.

The company had transformed from a savings and loans entity; First Capital Plus Limited since 2009.

Even though it has been fairly new in the banking industry, the managers of Capital bank have always maintained that the bank is adequately capitalised to meet the its operations at a time that reports were rife of a possible rise in the minimum capital requirements of banks.

Capital bank is headquartered at Spintex, Accra.

Its key founders are; Ato Essien, Dr Otabil as well as Rev Fritz Gerald Odonkor.

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By:  Vivian Kai Lokko/citibusinessnews.com/Ghana

 

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