Bloomberg Ghana’s pension funds are safe from the crisis engulfing money managers caught in the aftermath of a banking-industry cleanup. “The only way some may have been affected is if they made fixed-term investments with some of the banks that were shut down,” Hayford Attah Krufi, chief executive officer of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, said. “But, because the government …

Bloomberg Central banks in the Philippines and Thailand will grapple with mounting global risks when they decide interest rates this week, keen to bolster their economies against slower growth. Thailand was expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday after a surprise reduction last month, while a day later the Philippines will probably lower its benchmark rate for a third …

Bloomberg Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele said most of the country’s banks have obeyed a directive to raise loan-to-deposit ratio to 60 percent and those that fail to do so will face penalties by October 1. “Compliance level has been excellent,” Emefiele said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in London. “Not all the banks have complied, naturally. …