Business News of Sunday, 3 February 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgFinancial sector regulators urged to support monetary literacyThe Organisation is working to deepen financial literacy among the YouthThe Young Investors Network (YIN), a Non-Governmental Organisation working to deepen financial literacy among the Youth, has called on financial sector regulators to support its efforts at providing the youth with the requisite financial education. He said the current happenings in the financial sector, where scammers had taken advantage of the weaknesses, has necessitated the need to train more people with the accurate financial skills to better the lot of the sector. He called on the regulators to support the activities of the Network, which already had closer relations with the younger population in the secondary and tertiary schools, to deepen their knowledge on the financial sector. Mr Mensah said although the Security and Exchange Commission had provided huge support to the Network, the other regulators had not been collaborative enough towards the financial education agenda. Mr Mensah said if trust was broken in the banking industry it would have an adverse effect on the financial sector.

Source: GhanaWeb February 03, 2019 15:19 UTC