{
  "id": 9308197,
  "title": "Ecobank calls for wider access and stronger collaboration on agricultural finance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/ecobank-calls-for-wider-access-and-stronger-collaboration-on-9308197",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-23T08:55:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Joy Business",
    "slug": "joy-business",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/ecobank-calls-for-wider-access-and-stronger-collaboration-on-agricultural-finance/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Charllote Amanquah, Ecobank’s Regional Head of Commercial and Consumer Banking, has urged greater collaboration between financial and agricultural organizations to extend assistance to more businesses within Ghana’s agricultural sector. On Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, she stated, \"We need to move to the point of action being put in place, expanding the reach, covering more beneficiaries within the agri-value chain.\" Amanquah made this remark following the Ecobank Joy Business Financial Dialogue held on Tuesday, 23 September 2026. The discussions emphasized the need to convert proposed solutions into action.\n\nThe Ecobank executive highlighted stronger collaboration as another crucial priority, asserting that commercial banks, development institutions, and bodies like the Ghana Commodity Exchange must join forces to serve farmers and agribusinesses in Ghana. \"So we need to avoid siloism or individual efforts, commercial banks, development institutions, institutions like the Ghana Commodity Exchange, all of us coming together and collaborating even better in order to serve the beneficiaries within the agri-sector in Ghana,\" she emphasized. Amanquah added that the dialogue revealed the agricultural businesses required support beyond financing, necessitating better record keeping, clearer markets for their products, and greater awareness of available solutions. \"The real success of these dialogues comes from how it leads to implementation,\" she concluded.",
  "summary": "Ecobank’s Regional Head of Commercial and Consumer Banking, Charllote Amanquah, has called for closer cooperation among financial and agricultural institutions to extend support to more businesses across Ghana’s agricultural value chain.",
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    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Joy Business",
        "title": "Green finance must deliver measurable benefits to Ghanaian farmers – Ecobank",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/green-finance-must-deliver-measurable-benefits-to-ghanaian-farmers",
        "published": "2026-09-23T08:49:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "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."
}