Financial Inclusion Strategy to be implemented in 2018 - Sampson Akligoh

Director of Financial Sector Division at the Ministry of Finance, Sampson Akligoh has revealed that the sector minister has approved a policy for a financial inclusion strategy which would be implemented in 2018.

Speaking on behalf of the minister at the opening of the 3rd Banking and Insurance Fair in Accra, he said: “It is important that the financial institutions are more open and that regulators, analysts and all the people who matter have access to information and we need to tackle that”.

He added that “those are some of the ways we can drag interest rate down”.

Mr Akligoh said the ministry is working on implementing several policies to tackle the numerous challenges in the financial sector.

He stated that there is the need to strengthen pension insurance and collective investment schemes in the country adding that even though so much work has been done to get a lot of companies and the economy to get access to long term capital, it is proving difficult to get it.

“We are going to tackle it in two ways; we will focus on insurance, pension and collective investment schemes because these people provide long term money for the economy. But we will not end there, we will make sure that those guys find a way to work through the capital market,” he said.

Sampson Akligoh added that efforts are also being made to get various regulators in the financial sector to work together.