Tag: base rates
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Banks maintain average interest on loans for 3rd time
The average interest rate at which commercial banks lend to their customers remained unchanged at 25.7% in December 2017. This is the third consecutive time that the base rates have been kept unchanged at 25.7 percent. The base rate is the lowest rate at which a bank would lend to its customers. According to the…
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Banks base rates stay at 26.6% in September
The average base rate among commercial banks remained at 26.6 percent in September 2017 as recorded in August 2017. The base rate is the lowest rate at which a bank would lend to its customers. According to the Bank of Ghana’s Annual Percentage and Average Interest report, of the thirty-one banks that were surveyed, Unibank still…
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Banks’ average base rate increases to 27.8%
The latest Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interests (AI) on deposits report released by the Bank of Ghana shows that the average minimum interest rates that can be charged on loans and advances by commercial banks in the country has increased marginally between May and September this year. The figure increased from 27.5 percent…