The facts
- Who files
- Banks licensed and operating under the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930). The Capital Requirements Directive applies to banks only, not to other Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions. Source
- How often
- Once a year: each bank sends the Bank of Ghana a capital management plan (CMP) covering a rolling three years, and updates it whenever circumstances call for it. Source
- Deadline
- Not stated. The Capital Requirements Directive requires annual submission (paragraph 28) but gives no specific calendar date or number of days after the financial year end. Source
- Format
- Other. Not stated on the pages read. Source
- How it is filed
- Filing route recorded for the BoG: PSA Returns. See how firms file with the BoG.
- Status
- In force
- Legal basis
- Group
- Capital
Templates (0)
The library lists no templates for this return.
No published CMP form was found. The Directive describes what the plan must contain (paragraphs 27-28) but banks prepare the plan themselves; the Bank of Ghana does not publish a template. Source
Validation rules
No published validation rules were found for this return. No validation rules for the Capital Management Plan were found on the Bank's public pages. Source
Public data
No published data from this return was found. No aggregate or firm-level data drawn from Capital Management Plans was found. The Bank's Banking Sector Reports page, which used to publish sector capital adequacy figures, has not been updated since July 2021. Source
Official documents (3)
The BoG's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.
- Capital Requirements Directive
Legal text · PDF · 1.6 MB · June 2018
Issued under the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930), section 92(1), and applies to banks only. Sets out the definition and calculation of regulatory capital, credit, operational and market risk weighted assets, and the Capital Management Plan requirement; it does not itself publish a Capital Adequacy Ratio return form.
SHA-256
367896e2dc9dshow in full367896e2dc9dad15d026cd7185d614e7cbb2732b759a5f7a50e4b9dcb4334370 - Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930)
Legal text · PDF · 741.3 KB · 2016
SHA-256
35da5f9d7b64show in full35da5f9d7b641f9d32cf798fa8323392642f6166d33ed63f94601e95c89e8ae1 - Bank of Ghana Act, 2002 (Act 612)
Legal text · PDF · 3.6 MB · 2002
SHA-256
22abd08c7615show in full22abd08c7615648e8d5dc8c10a476635cd376e880ff8ec44e0c8d8bbb29b3bfe
Sources
Every page and document this return's facts were read from.
- bog.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Basel-II-BOG-CRD-Final-27-June-2018-Basel-Committee-BSD.pdf
- bog.gov.gh/reg_directives/capital-requirement-directive/
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