The Ahantaman Community Bank PLC continues to rebound from the adverse effects of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.
The year under review saw the bank making significant strides in key performance indicators; deposits, advances, profit, and total assets.
Right Reverend Daniel De-Graft Brace, Board Chairman of the Bank reporting to shareholders at the 38th annual General meeting, said the year 2025 saw the bank growing deposits from GH¢367, 253,780 to GH¢522,553, 765 recording a 42.29 percent change.
There was total advance to customers to the sum of GH¢356,219,347 in 2025 as against GH¢235,831,490 in 2024.
The Bank recorded a profit after tax of GH¢26,651,839 also in the year under review with a total assets’ growth of GH¢625, 311,473 as compared to GH¢430,559,105 in the previous year.
The Chairman said the board, had therefore, recommended a GH¢0.13 dividend per share amounting to GH¢6, 615, 252, the equivalent of 24.82 percent of the profit after tax.
The bank, he announced, had upgraded its core banking software and rolled out additional digital channels for the convenience of customers.
The Ahantaman Community Bank, invested heavily in community projects to give back to the sum of GH¢905,941.
“I will like to assure you that the bank is poised and ready to provide fast, safe and smooth services to all category of customers and businesses…we are walking with you along the way to prosperity, ” the Chairman added.
Mr. Joseph Nelson, the Western Regional Minister, praised the bank for its contributions to local economic growth.
He said the government would introduce policies that worked in favour of businesses to thrive and encouraged the management team to diligently work to impress shareholders.
Mr. Benjamin Afful-Eshun, the industrious Chief Executive Officer, who exits the bank after 21 years of services, was massively praised for his faithful stewardship that had seen the bank chalked many good performance indicators.
Mr. Afful-Eshun joined the bank as a project officer in 2001 as a project officer and rose through the ranks to become the CEO in July 2014.
His ingenuity, vision and collective responsibility approach to duty and growth, had positioned the bank as one preferred and top on the community bank list.
Source: GNA
