The regional offices are located in the following cities, Hohoe, Kumasi, Sunyani, Tamale, Takoradi, Bolgatanga, Wa.
[2] By mid-July 1957, all necessary preparations were completed for the official inauguration of the Bank's new Head Office on High Street.
As soon as local politicians and economists saw political independence in sight in the mid-1950s the agitation for a central bank was revived.
It was argued that a central bank was one institution which would give true meaning to political independence.
In March 2012, the Bank of Ghana announced it would be making specific commitments to financial inclusion under the Maya Declaration.
His deputy governor was one Mr. Douglas F. Stone, another renowned British central banker also on secondment from Bank of England.
The general administration of the bank was entrusted in the hands of a seven-member board of directors under the chairmanship of the governor.
The other directors of the board were also appointed by the Prime Minister with the approval of the governor of the Gold Coast for a term of three years, subject to renewal.
There was also the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB), which was in fact, not a bank by definition; it was only an institution set up by the government to mobilize public savings through the agency of the numerous post offices in the country, for investment in government paper.
[19][25] Other distinguished members of the society including the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II have also expressed their reservations towards the decision of the Bank of Ghana's leadership.