Wednesday, April 4, 2007

BoG Launches website on re-denomination

Accra, April 4, GNA – Bank of Ghana (BoG) has launched a website to
educate the public on the re-denomination of the cedi, which comes
into effect on July 1, 2007.A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday
signed by Esi Hammond, Head of the Central Bank's Public Affairs Unit,
named the website address as: www.ghanacedi.gov.gh.It has features
that give a regular update on the re-denomination exercise through
menus.The statement said visitors to the website could subscribe to
the news and events alert that automatically send information updates
to the subscriber's e-mail.

There are news highlights on reports carried in the newspapers about
the re-denomination and currency converters that convert the Cedi to
Ghana Cedi and vice versa and another that converts the cedi or Ghana
cedi to foreign currencies and vice versa.The statement said the site
also has instruction on how to request for conversion through text
messaging via Areeba, Onetouch and Tigo.
4 April 07