Tag: Registrar General’s Department
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Online registration of businesses to begin in year’s time – Registrar General
The Registrar General has indicated that her outfit will begin the digital registration of businesses from next year. According to her, this user friendly online platform would facilitate the registration of businesses and prevent the long delays associated with business registration in the country. Speaking at a roundtable discussion organised by Veritas International Nominees and…
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Establishment of ORC will further boost ease of doing business – Akufo-Addo
Government’s efforts to create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive has been augmented by the establishment of the Office of the Registrar of Companies, ORC. This is according to President Akufo-Addo. Speaking at the launch of the newly established Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) in Accra, President Akufo – Addo said the…
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Registrar-General delists 2,788 firms from companies register
The Registrar General’s Department has delisted 2,788 companies from Ghana’s Companies Register for defaulting to file their annual returns with the department. The affected companies failed to comply with the directive issued by the department to file their annual returns or risk being delisted from the Companies Register. In a statement copied to Citi Business…
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Registrar General’s Department to delist over 100,000 companies
The Registrar General’s Department, RGD, has served notice to the Business Community and the general public that it has begun the delisting of dormant companies from the Companies Register. The delisting process is commencing with 3,100 companies being taken off the Companies Register. In a statement signed and copied to Citi Business News, the Registrar…
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Registrar General’s Department to publish names of 222 companies expunged from its register
The Registrar-General, Jemima Oware, says her outfit will, from October 1, publish the names of two hundred and twenty-two dormant companies whose names have been struck out of the Companies Register. According to her, these companies will be classified as being inactive and will not be able to be accessed for any business transaction for…
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Registrar General’s Department to end validation of dormant companies in September 2021
The Registrar Generals Department has served notice to the Business Community and the general public that it will end its validation of dormant companies at the end of September this year. The exercise was to validate dormant Companies which adhered to the directive of the Registrar of Companies to file their Annual Returns with the…
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Official Liquidator to have investor class meeting with customers of defunct FMC’s
The Official Liquidator for the defunct Fund Management Companies (FMC’s) will on Friday, July 2 have an investor class meeting with customers of some defunct FMC’s. A statement issued by the Registrar-General, Jemima Oware, stated that “all the creditors of the under-listed companies are being invited to a Virtual First Creditors meeting on the scheduled…
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Companies given up to June 30 to submit data on legal owners to Registrar-General
The Registrar-General’s Department has tasked all existing companies to submit all data on their legal and beneficial owners before July 1, 2021. “From January, every business that comes to register is supposed to download the forms, fill it and attach it to the registration documents. So we have started collecting them,” she noted during a…
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End of the road for eight fund managers as official liquidator gazettes them
The Official Liquidator (OL) has gazetted eight additional fund management companies (FMCs) out of the 54 whose licenses the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revoked. Two more companies, which have also been cleared, are going through the winding up and gazetting process. Their gazetting completes their journeys as corporate bodies. Those gazetted include UniSecurities Gh…
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Registrar General to release payment plan for clients of 20 FMCs this week
The Registrar General, Jemimah Oware, says she will divulge the exact details of governments’ bailout package in virtual meetings with creditors who qualify as investors of the defunct 20 fund management companies under official liquidation, on the 15th and 16th of September. Customers of the 20 companies have been incessantly calling for details on the…