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Value of Secured Loans By Banks, SDIs Decrease To Ghc5.26 Billion- BoG Report

M.Cby M.C
June 27, 2023
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Value of Secured Loans By Banks, SDIs Decreased To Ghc5.26 Billion- BoG Report

Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison

The value of secured loans for which collateral was registered by banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions has been estimated at ¢5.26 billion in the first quarter of 2023.

This is in comparison to the Ghc 6.5 billion reported during the same period in 2022, which showed a 19.23% year-over-year reduction.

According to the Bank of Ghana’s First Quarter Report on Collateral Registration, banks accounted for ¢4.3 billion of total secured loans, representing 25.1% decrease during the same period last year.

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On the other hand, the Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions recorded a total amount of ¢924.7 million of secured loans. This represented a share of 17.6% and an increase of 29.8% over the same period in 2022.

Banks registered the largest share of the total value of secured loans in quarter one (Q1) 2023, with 82.4%.

The share of secured loans by Savings and Loans companies increased to 9.3% as compared to the same quarter in 2022, while that of Finance Houses declined to 0.3% from 0.4% in quarter one 2022.

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While the overall percentage of loans from the remaining lending institutions climbed to 6.86% from 3.6% in the same comparative period, the share of secured loans by microfinance institutions also softened to 1.0% in the first quarter of 2023 from 0.9% in the same period last year.

BoG’s report further disclosed that the average lending rates for secured loans by banks constituted the lowest across all the lending institutions, at 21.2% in Q1 2023, down from 24.2 percent in Q1 2022.

Leasing Companies, as stated by the report, recorded the second lowest average lending rate of 29.5% in Q1 2023, an increase from 13.2% in Q1 2022, whilst that of Rural and Community Banks increased to 34.3% in Q1 2023 from 32.5% recorded in the same period last year.

More so, average lending rate on secured loans granted by the Savings and Loans Companies declined to 45.3% in the review period from 46.4% recorded in Q1 2022.

Of the banks and SDIs, Finance Houses had the highest average loan rate of 59.6% in the first quarter of 2023, up from 48.8% in the corresponding quarter of 2022.

Collateral Registrations In Q1 Estimated At 46,258

Meanwhile, the total number of collateral registrations recorded in the first quarter of this year was 46,258, compared to 39,052 registrations in the same quarter of 2022.

The number of registrations discharged by the Savings and Loans firms was the largest among the lending institutions, with a total of 24,125 discharges of collateral filed in respect of loans being recorded by those companies, accounting for 89.6% of the total number of discharges.

This was followed by the Rural and Community Banks with 1,684 discharges, representing 6.3% of total discharges for the period.

Banks and Microfinance Companies recorded 521 and 391 discharges respectively, representing respective shares of 1.6% and 0.6% of total discharges.

The Collateral Registry was established by the Bank of Ghana on February 1, 2010 pursuant to the Borrowers and Lenders Act, 2008 (Act 773).

The Borrowers and Lenders Act, 2020 (Act 1052) was enacted to regulate transactions between borrowers and lenders, to establish a Collateral Registry, to provide a legal framework for the registration and enforcement of security interests in collateral, to establish an order of priority of security interests, to provide for credit agreements and related matters.

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Tags: Bank of Ghana's First Quarter ReportCollateral RegistrationsMicrofinanceSavings and Loans firmsSpecialized Deposit-taking Institutions
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