DOSSIER: GCB takes over UT, Capital Bank

Stories of or related to the takeover of UT Bank and Capital Bank by GCB

• The NPP came to loot and destroy the banking sector - Sammy Gyamfi (2020-07-21)
• Staff of defunct microfinance companies besiege ICU offices (2020-07-13)
• GCB Bank freezes loan repayment for 2 months, cuts personal loan interest rate (2020-06-26)
• Court rejects State’s repayment agreement with Daniel Duku (2020-06-23)
• Capital Bank trial adjourned to July 9 (2020-06-18)
• UT Bank collapse: State ordered to file relevant documents by June 22 (2020-05-29)
• Samuel Amankwah resigns from GCB Board (2020-05-15)
• GCB Bank sponsors Mobile Technology for Development conference (2020-03-11)
• Court adjourns ex-Beige boss trial (2020-02-06)
• Amoabeng, 5 others slapped with 42 new charges (2020-02-06)
• UT Bank case: Kofi Amoabeng, 5 others charged with 42 counts (2020-02-05)
• UT-Capital takeover: GCB Bank dragged to CHRAJ (2020-01-31)
• UT, Beige Bank owners prosecution an act of desperation for political gains - Edudzi Tamakloe (2020-01-19)
• Why now? – Edudzi Tamakloe questions ‘timing’ of arrest of UT & Beige Bank bosses (2020-01-19)
• Former Beige Bank boss files for bail (2020-01-16)
• B&FT Editorial: At last, prosecutions are being made (2020-01-16)
• Those responsible for banking crisis will soon face the law - President (2020-01-15)
• Banking sector clean-up exercise already yielding positive results - Deputy Minister (2020-01-15)
• UT Bank collapse: Kofi Amoabeng arrested (2020-01-14)
• UT Bank Collapse: Amoabeng granted GHC110m bail (2020-01-14)
• Capital Bank case: Case management conference set for December 16 (2019-11-20)
• BoG boss ‘secretly’ releasing collapsed financial institutions’ cash – Adongo exposes Addison (2019-11-08)
• 'We're back to a sense of stability' - Ofori-Atta on banking sector reforms (2019-11-01)
• Collapsed Capital Bank case: Ato Essien, 3 others granted GH¢800m bail (2019-10-16)
• Ato Essien, three others deny charges in Capital Bank collapse (2019-10-16)
• Capital Bank collapse: Ato Essien, others plead not guilty in court (2019-10-15)
• Capital Bank collapse: Ato Essien, others granted GH¢675 million bail (2019-10-15)
• Charging Ato Essien, et al with stealing not enough - Lawyer (2019-10-10)
• Capital Bank purchase: Did Ken Ofori-Atta and Keli Gadzekpo ‘lie’? (2019-10-02)
• GCB Bank boss assisted a ‘scammer’ to chop my $100k – Ato Essien reveals (2019-09-29)
• Ato Essiens’s Capital Bank: A cocktail of non-existent investments and plain fraud (2019-09-29)
• Kwesi Botchwey's integrity alone vindicates Heritage Bank – Amoabeng (2019-09-27)
• Otabil has unparalleled integrity – Ato Essien (2019-09-27)
• Mensa Otabil was a gem in banking issues – Ato Essien (2019-09-27)
• I never 'chopped’ money from Capital Bank - Ato Essien (2019-09-27)
• GCB records ¢323 million profit in 2018 (2019-04-07)
• Collapse of five indigenous banks: Ken Thompson raises concern about delay in prosecution (2019-03-19)
• Ex-UT, Capital bank staff to meet GCB management over contract termination (2019-03-12)
• Oquaye summons Ofori-Atta over UT, Capital Bank collapse (2019-03-07)
• First Allied Savings customer shares how she nearly killed herself (2019-02-28)
• My ex-staff now hawks tiger nuts; it breaks my heart – UT’s Amoabeng (2019-02-22)
• I tested for suicidal tendencies after UT Bank collapse – Amoabeng (2019-02-18)
• Ex-staff of UT, Capital banks still cry for exit pay (2019-01-02)
• 2019 to see well sanitized and resilient banking sector – Frank Adu (2018-12-24)
• Otabil's Central University not collapsing – Bill Puplampo (2018-11-14)
• Central University is too strong to collapse — Vice Chancellor (2018-11-13)
• Add Manasseh to Otabil, ICGC, 15 others suite, he may have knowledge of the money (2018-11-10)
• Add Manasseh Azuri to Otabil, ICGC suit (2018-11-09)
• Compel Ibrahim Mahama to ‘vomit’ GHS350m UT loan - Receivers pray to Court (2018-11-08)
• The 'devil is bad' – Otabil reacts to suit (2018-11-07)
• Capital Bank Receivers acting in bad faith; we don't owe them - CDH Savings and Loans (2018-11-07)
• Capital bank: Suit against Mensa Otabil, 13 others apt – Financial Analyst (2018-11-06)
• Otabil, 15 others sued over GH¢748m Capital Bank cash (2018-11-06)
• EOCO grills failed banks’ directors (2018-11-04)
• Ex-UT, Capital Bank staff beg for cash (2018-10-18)
• Bankers who lost their jobs deserved it – David Prah (2018-10-09)
• Otabil must be jailed - Prophet Kumchacha (2018-09-19)
• Distressed banks collapsed long before NPP came to power - Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (2018-09-17)
• Collapse of banks the result of acts of lawlessness – Akufo-Addo (2018-09-10)
• PWC recovers monies from collapse of UT/Capital banks, recommends prosecution (2018-09-08)
• My open letter to Ghanaians from Oxford; Ghana’s phantom economy (2018-09-08)
• We aren’t aiming at collapsing any bank – Akufo-Addo (2018-09-07)
• CBG to close down 98 branches, keep 93 (2018-09-07)
• 'Guilty or not guilty', I stand with Otabil - Trigmatic (2018-09-03)
• Otabil must relinquish his post on various boards – Kwaku Boahen (2018-08-31)
• Kofi Amoabeng defrauded us, state of $103m – Lushann International (2018-08-27)
• Lushann Energy CEO accuses UT’s Kofi Amoabeng of money laundering (2018-08-27)
• Lushann International denies involvement in UT collapse (2018-08-27)
• Manasseh's folder: The trial of Mensa Otabil (2018-08-27)
• Decision on collapsed banks was to save 50k jobs – Ofori-Atta (2018-08-24)
• Flashback: Banking is not that tough; it’s just common sense – Otabil (2018-08-24)
• Do not destroy Otabil's integrity (2018-08-21)
• uniBank shareholders accuse KPMG of conflict of interest (2018-08-20)
• As an investment banker, I condemn Otabil’s media trial - Asiedu Nketia (2018-08-19)
• Don’t come to church because of your pastor – Otabil tells congregation (2018-08-19)
• UT Collapse: I didn’t ‘divert’ $5m – Amoabeng (2018-08-19)
• UT Boss speaks out over GHC5m cash (2018-08-18)
• 'Super' UT brand has been 'totally defamed' – Amoabeng (2018-08-17)
• FLASHBACK: People who ‘look like insult’ now ‘insulting me’ – Otabil (2018-08-17)
• I did not divert GHC5m UT cash - ‘Deeply disturbed’ Amoabeng reacts (2018-08-17)
• ‘To think UT Bank is no more bleeds my heart’ – Kofi Amoabeng speaks (2018-08-17)
• Banking sector becoming preserve of foreigners – Sly Mensah (2018-08-16)
• I'm very disappointed in Otabil, I expected him to rise above this - Ofosu Ampofo (2018-08-16)
• How Capital Bank blew GH¢620m; The inside story (2018-08-16)
• Patronize Ghanaian owned banks – Dr Nduom urges Ghanaians (2018-08-16)
• Boulders Report: GHC5million payment was for my personal house – Amoabeng clarifies (2018-08-16)
• The collapse of Capital Bank and the alleged involvement of Pastor Mensah Otabil (2018-08-16)
• Capital Bank Collapse: Mensa Otabil fights back (2018-08-15)
• Mumuadu AGM: Apex Bank urges rural banks to meet BoG's capital requirement (2018-08-15)
• Capital Bank collapse is Otabil's punishment for hating on Mahama – Appiah Stadium (2018-08-15)
• I was not involved in the daily management of Capital Bank – Dr. Mensa Otabil (2018-08-14)
• Capital Bank Bust: I'm not guilty – Otabil (2018-08-14)
• Ibrahim Mahama ‘caught pants down’ (2018-08-14)
• Pastor Otabil and the shameless hashtag (2018-08-14)
• ‘I can’t be blamed; my role was non-executive’ at Capital Bank – Otabil responds to critics (2018-08-14)
• I wasn’t involved in management of Capital Bank – Otabil (2018-08-14)
• I’m praying for you – Otabil to retrenched bank staff (2018-08-14)
• Christians standing with Mensa Otabil are stupid – Lawyer (2018-08-13)
• Blaming Ibrahim Mahama for UT Bank's collapse is cheap propaganda (2018-08-13)
• Ibrahim Mahama didn't 'collapse' UT Bank; dismiss 'skewed' GHC302m loan report – Lawyer (2018-08-13)
• Dr. Otabil and the banks (2018-08-13)
• Report on Ibrahim Mahama’s transactions with UT Bank skewed – Lawyer (2018-08-13)
• A manager of defunct Capital Bank now sells grilled pork for survival (2018-08-13)
• Ibrahim Mahama didn't 'collapse' UT Bank; ignore 'skewed' GHS 302m loan report – Lawyer (2018-08-12)
• Otabil was misled by bank’s CEO over GhC610m embezzlement - Franklin Cudjoe (2018-08-11)
• Don't spare Mensa Otabil if he's guilty - Franklin Cudjoe (2018-08-11)
• 'You're a man of integrity, we stand by you' – ICGC to Otabil (2018-08-11)
• CHRIS-VINCENT Writes: Ghana’s 610 million Cedis, Dr Mensa Otabil and the stupid Christians who stand with him (2018-08-11)
• Prosecute managers of collapsed banks – Emile Short (2018-08-03)
• We can't prosecute CEOs/MDs of failed banks – BoG (2018-08-02)
• Bank Takeovers: Addison doing a hatchet job for Ken Ofori-Atta – Adongo (2018-08-02)
• BoG, Bawumia, Ofori-Atta killing local banks with 'slow poison' – Adongo (2018-08-02)
• Bank Mergers: Government supports Bank of Ghana – Ofori-Atta (2018-08-02)
• We can’t prosecute those behind the issuance, acquisition of fraudulent licences -BoG (2018-08-02)
• GCB Bank pumps GH¢100,000 into CSR to mark 65th anniversary (2018-06-13)
• Ex-Capital and UT Bank workers demand exit-pay, benefits (2018-05-09)
• Severance packages for staff of defunct UT, Capital banks in limbo (2018-04-26)
• GCB staff donate to Weija Leprosarium (2018-04-25)
• Capital Bank boss nabbed (2018-04-18)
• Make cost of credit affordable – Paramount Chief urges BoG, GCB, others (2018-04-17)
• Former Capital, UT Banks workers cry over unpaid entitlements (2018-04-17)
• Aggrieved staff of defunct Capital Bank demand severance package (2018-04-13)
• Capital Bank boss arrested (2018-04-11)
• Capital Bank boss arrested (2018-04-11)
• Local banks face GH¢4bn capital hurdle (2018-04-11)
• EOCO has not summoned me or any UT bank director – Kofi Amoabeng (2018-03-29)
• Deposit protection will help boost confidence in financial sector - Franklin Belnye (2018-02-06)
• 70% staff of UT, Capital Banks absorbed by GCB (2018-02-06)
• UT, Capital banks collapse: GCB shuts down 31 branches (2018-02-05)
• GCB completes UT, Capital banks integration (2018-02-05)
• BoG urges consolidation (2018-01-22)
• GCB integrates system to cover UT, Capital banks (2018-01-04)
• Capital Bank boss in fresh scandal (2017-11-02)
• UT, Capital collapse could undo local banks’ efforts – Banker (2017-10-09)
• Number of banks operating in Ghana must be reduced - Fidelity Bank MD (2017-10-06)
• GCB sacks over 700 UT/Capital Banks staff (2017-10-03)
• Revocation of licenses of UT, Capital Banks apt – Andani (2017-09-27)
• HFC in talks with two banks to meet GHC400m minimum capital requirement (2017-09-22)
• Banks need strong corporate governance to survive - Governor (2017-09-15)
• Staff of Capital, UT demand severance packages (2017-09-14)
• BoG minimum capital not good - Nduom (2017-09-12)
• BoG’s minimum capital to fix NPLs – Financial Analyst (2017-09-12)
• Blame government, 'dumsor' for challenges in private sector - Financial analysts (2017-09-06)
• IMF praises BoG over UT, Capital banks takeover (2017-09-05)
• The fate of UT and Capital banks’ shareholders (2017-09-03)
• Local businesses should not be attacked - Harruna Attah (2017-09-03)
• Feature: The fate of UT and Capital banks’ shareholders (2017-09-02)
• What happens to shareholders, employees of UT Bank and Capital Bank? (2017-08-30)
• 8 key Q&A s on collapse of UT, Capital Bank (2017-08-28)
• Otabil is responsible for Capital Bank collapse – Kwaku Boahene (2017-08-28)
• Mensa Otabil’s daughter cries for her inheritance (2017-08-26)
• M.anifest’s take on the UT, Capital Banks collapse (2017-08-25)
• Pastor Otabil's daughter pens touching letter following Capital Bank collapse (2017-08-24)
• I want my future husband to be like my father – Mensa Otabil’s daughter (2017-08-24)
• UT, Capital Bank collapse shouldn’t deter Ghanaian entrepreneurs – M.anifest (2017-08-24)
• Silence is the hallmark of a wise leader – Dag Heward-Mills (2017-08-24)
• Stop reading Otabil’s books; throw them into garbage cans - Top NDC member (2017-08-23)
• Rev. Owusu Bempah slams Mensa Otabil's critics (2017-08-23)
• Capital Bank collapse: Mensa Otabil hides behind Holy Bible (2017-08-23)
• Otabil is a pastor, businessman and politician - MP (2017-08-23)
• The takeover of UT Bank, Capital Bank – Matters arising (2017-08-22)
• Otabil popped champagne after Capital Bank collapse - Minority (2017-08-22)
• Collapse of UT and Capital banks – A case of a collective national failure (2017-08-22)
• UT, Capital collapse ‘unfortunate’ – Nduom (2017-08-22)
• Throw Otabil’s books in the ‘bins’ – Alhaji Sani to buyers (2017-08-22)
• UT, Capital staff to suffer pay cut (2017-08-21)
• Pastor Otabil, God's creation looks like an insult? (2017-08-21)
• Devil, I poked your eye; you can't stop me – Otabil (2017-08-21)
• Unpaid loans contracted by international firms collapsed UT and Capital Banks - Lecturer (2017-08-21)
• Otabil recounts tortuous experience with collapse of Capital Bank (2017-08-21)
• Otabil, integrity and the lesson for us all (2017-08-21)
• Ibrahim Mahama collapsed UT Bank – Wontumi alleges (2017-08-21)
• GCB to clear UT, Capital debts (2017-08-21)
• Bank of Ghana must be blamed for Capital and UT banks collapse - Tax Lawyer (2017-08-21)
• Responding to critics using your pulpit ungodly – Suhuyini blasts Otabil (2017-08-21)
• Ghana to witness ‘massive’ economic turnaround – Pastor Otabil prophesies (2017-08-21)
• Apologize for insulting us - NDC warns Otabil (2017-08-21)
• Can we hold the directors of UT Bank and Capital Bank responsible? (2017-08-20)
• BOG breached laws by revoking UT, Capital Bank licenses - Loh (2017-08-20)
• Who are the minority NDC operatives trying to convince? (2017-08-20)
• These knavish prophets feed on the ignorance of Ghanaians! (2017-08-20)
• People who 'look like insult' now 'insulting me' – Otabil (2017-08-20)
• Last Wednesday was 'terrible' for me – Otabil (2017-08-20)
• I'll bounce back 'as gold' - Otabil (2017-08-20)
• Mensa Otabil breaks silence on Capital Bank takeover (2017-08-20)
• Otabil preaches ‘Peace’ days after Capital Bank headache (2017-08-20)
• People rejoicing over my Capital Bank collapse - Mensa Otabil (2017-08-20)
• Let’s cut bank numbers to 9 – HFC MD (2017-08-20)
• Akufo-Addo lauds BoG for revoking licenses of Capital Bank, UT Bank (2017-08-20)
• Ghana needs fewer banks – Casely-Hayford (2017-08-20)
• UT/Capital banks collapse: Are the directors liable? (2017-08-19)
• Probe UT, Capital closure objectively – Lecturer (2017-08-19)
• BoG’s supervisory role not the best – Tetteh Chaie (2017-08-19)
• I have 'no regrets' for top managers of UT, Capital Banks - Adu Asare (2017-08-19)
• You cannot trust BoG to do an unbiased job in investigating Capital Bank - NDC lawyer (2017-08-19)
• GCB to clear UT, Capital Bank debts (2017-08-19)
• One Capital for UT (2017-08-19)
• Capital Bank rot exposed (2017-08-18)
• Editorial: After the take-over, what next? (2017-08-18)
• BoG freezes accounts of UT, Capital CEOs (2017-08-18)
• Simpa Panyin: Bank of Ghana and the making of Bruce Lee (2017-08-18)
• Kumchacha hits hard at Mensa Otabil (2017-08-18)
• Revoking licences of UT, Capital Banks decisive – Akufo-Addo (2017-08-18)
• Government's intervention in UT, Capital Banks takeover laudable - Danquah Institute (2017-08-18)
• We’re sufficiently capitalised – The Royal Bank CEO (2017-08-18)
• It’s a shame a ‘competent’ Otabil could not save Capital Bank – Kumchacha (2017-08-17)
• Is Kofi Amoabeng’s refusal to pay tithe cause of UT Bank collapse? (2017-08-17)
• And Bawumia’s word came to pass (2017-08-17)
• NDC’s bad economic management cause of UT, Capital Banks collapse - Lecturer (2017-08-17)
• Congratulate UT, Capital Bank Bosses, don’t cry for them - Consultant (2017-08-17)
• Capital Bank’s collapse has exposed Otabil’s incompetence – Kweku Boahen (2017-08-17)
• Minority calls for bi-partisan probe into UT, Capital Banks (2017-08-16)
• There's no law for bipartisan probe of collapse of UT, Capital Banks – Lawyer (2017-08-16)
• Bank of Ghana and the making of Bruce Lee (2017-08-16)
• How Kwesi Pratt’s Insight Newspaper predicted the collapse of Capital Bank (2017-08-16)
• Otabil must be held responsible for collapse of Capital Bank – Kwaku Boahene (2017-08-16)
• NDC’s borrowing collapsed UT, Capital Bank – Yaw Preko (2017-08-16)
• Uniform capitalisation could spike non-performing loans – Royal Bank boss (2017-08-16)
• Further investigations of bank directors is proper (2017-08-16)
• UT Bank bosses sacked (2017-08-16)
• GCB Bank to minimise negative effects of integration (2017-08-16)
• UT Boss must blame himself; NOT first class graduates and light-skinned ladies (2017-08-16)
• BoG has turned into 'American Marines' – Allotey Jacobs (2017-08-16)
• UT, Capital Banks sale to GCB turns murky (2017-08-16)
• We can’t employ all UT, Capital Bank workers - GCB MD (2017-08-16)
• UT Bank takeover won't affect pensions - NPRA assures trustees (2017-08-16)
• You called Mahama incompetent yet you couldn’t manage Capital Bank – Kumchacha to Otabil (2017-08-16)
• 2 banks crash! Customers panic over takeover (2017-08-15)
• UT, Capital takeovers not overnight decision – GCB (2017-08-15)
• Blame IMF for UT, Capital takeovers - Analyst (2017-08-15)
• Minority fights for settlement of defunct UT, Capital banks’ staff (2017-08-15)
• BoG to punish Directors, shareholders responsible for UT Bank, Capital Bank collapse (2017-08-15)
• Investigate UT, Capital Banks demise – Minority (2017-08-15)
• Kwesi Pratt explains how Capital Bank took him to court (2017-08-15)
• Bank of Ghana assures customers of UT, Capital Banks (2017-08-15)
• GCB Bank assures UT, Capital Bank customers’ unfettered access to funds (2017-08-15)
• Takeover of UT Bank will not affect pension funds - NPRA (2017-08-15)
• BoG to sanction UT, Capital Banks officials over collapse (2017-08-15)
• Coup d'etat at UT Bank and Capital Bank (2017-08-15)
• Shareholders must invest more in their banks – Dr Adu Antwi (2017-08-15)
• Takeover of UT, Capital banks not surprising – Akoto Osei (2017-08-15)
• BoG licenses three more Banks (2017-08-15)
• Too many commercial banks in Ghana - Akoto osei (2017-08-15)
• 2 Banks crash! Customers panic over takeover (2017-08-15)
• Rapper Edem speaks against UT Bank and Capital Bank takeover (2017-08-14)
• GCB takeover of UT, Capital banks good move – Gastsi (2017-08-14)
• Bawumia predicted collapse of UT, Capital Banks and 6 others (2017-08-14)
• BoG appoints GCB Bank to take over UT and Capital Bank (2017-08-14)
• Adabraka UT Bank customers threaten to close their accounts (2017-08-14)
• 'Cronyism, square pegs in round holes' responsible for Capital Bank collapse? (2017-08-14)
• Flashback: Ghana’s 'lactogen banks' or why all that glitters is not gold (2017-08-14)
• Ghana Stock Exchange suspends listing status of UT Bank (2017-08-14)
• Don’t panic over takeover – UT, Capital banks’ customers urged (2017-08-14)
• GCB rebrands UT bank branches (2017-08-14)
• GCB wipes off UT bank logo at branches (2017-08-14)
• There’ll be layoffs – BoG official on UT, Capital banks takeover (2017-08-14)
• What you need to know about GCB’s acquisition of UT Bank/Capital Bank (2017-08-14)
• Customers of UT and Capital Banks stranded; express frustrations (2017-08-14)
• Claims of more banks collapsing unfounded – BoG (2017-08-14)
• Mass withdrawals hit UT, Capital banks (2017-08-14)
• Ghana’s 'lactogen banks' or why all that glitters is not gold (2009-04-05)