{
  "id": 19636551,
  "title": "120% collateral requirement shuts businesses out of credit — AGI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/120-collateral-requirement-shuts-businesses-out-of-credit-agi-19636551",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T09:30:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/120-collateral-requirement-shuts-businesses-out-of-credit-agi/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Eric Defor, has raised concerns about the difficulty businesses continue to face in securing bank loans, despite improved liquidity in the financial sector and a decline in interest rates. He said the high collateral requirements imposed by banks remained a major […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}