Capital Adequacy Ratio of banks shrink by 3.3%

Per the Central Bank, the banking industry’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) declined to 16.6% but remained above the prudential minimum of 13% as at December 2022 from the previous rate of 19.6% in December 2021.

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Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of banks in the country shrunk by 3.3% at the close of December last year.

According to the Bank of Ghana in its 110th Monetary Policy Committee press briefing on Monday, January 30, the 3.3% decline in banks CAR is attributable to losses on mark-to-market investments, increase in risk-weighted assets of banks from the high growth in actual credit, and the price effect of the depreciation of the Ghana Cedi on foreign currency denominated loans.

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Per the Central Bank, the banking industry’s Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) declined to 16.6% but remained above the prudential minimum of 13% as at December 2022 from the previous rate of 19.6% in December 2021.

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Capital adequacy ratio (CAR) is a measurement of a bank’s available capital expressed as a percentage of a bank’s risk-weighted assets and liabilities.

Capital Adequacy Ratios mandate that a certain amount of the deposits be kept aside whenever a loan is being made.

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These deposits are kept aside as provisions to cover up the losses in case the loan goes bad.

The banking sector’s profitability indicators, namely, the return-on-equity and the return-on-assets, the BoG noted, also declined during the period, in line with declining profit after tax and profit-before-tax, respectively.

The non-performing loans (NPL) ratio however improved to 14.8% in December 2022 compared with 15.2% in December 2021, on account of high credit growth, relative to the increased stock of NPLs between the two periods.

Source: norvanreports.com

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