Bank of Ghana First Deputy Governor Zakari Mumuni launched the National Banking College journal in Accra, calling for rigorous peer review, editorial independence and research that informs banking practice. In his keynote address, he urged banks, regulators and academics to share practical experience and test established approaches against evidence.
The journal should publish well-supported arguments that challenge conventional thinking rather than limit itself to comfortable conclusions. Contributions documenting control failures and corrective measures could help other institutions avoid similar mistakes, while academic research should address problems that affect practitioners’ decisions. For regulators, open debate and evidence provide a means of testing and improving policy ideas. Mumuni identified changes in decisions, improvements to models and challenges to longstanding assumptions as practical measures of the journal’s success.