Photo: Greg Pawson Kina Securities Limited, has reported an underlying net profit after tax of K106.1 million for the financial year 2022, representing a 10.3% increase from the prior corresponding period (PCP). Kina’s CEO, Greg Pawson, said that the result was "pleasing" and demonstrated the company's commitment to its strategic plan. He also highligh...
"The Bank of Papua New Guinea has an excess of US$3.7 billion (K13 billion) worth of foreign reserves sitting in the bank that can cater for the country for one year," said Prime Minister James Marape in response to questions raised by the Governor for Southern Highlands William Powi in Parliament. He went on to say, "I was informed by BPNG that the Centr...
Photo credit: Internal Revenue Commission PNG - Revenue Haus in Port Moresby The Internal Revenue Commission has collected a record revenue of K15 billion for the public purse this year, according to Prime Minister, James Marape. In a media statement PM Marape has commended the management and staff of Internal Revenue Commission (IRC) for being an e...
Prime Minister James Marape recently stated that the Country has over K12 Billion in Foreign Reserves sitting in the Bank of Papua New Guinea which is the highest Foreign Reserve for the country ever. Marape said this is the Fiscal Policy intervention that the Government is concerned with and the power to make interventions on foreign exchange remains wit...
Photo: PM Marape Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has welcomed the decision by Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG) to issue a provisional license to the Teacher’s Savings and Loans Society (TISA) to set up a fully-fledged commercial banking operation in PNG. “We would like a local bank with share offering to ordinary Papua New Guineans, mothers and fath...
Prime Minister, Hon. James Marape met with the officials from the Bank of China on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, and welcomed their plans to extend their Representative Office license which they obtained from the Bank of Papua New Guinea (BPNG). PM Marape has also encouraged the Bank of China to apply for a full commercial banking license from BPNG to ...
Following the government's Budget 2023 proposal to hike corporation tax from 30% to 45%, Kina Bank is abandoning all of its plans to grow by opening additional offices nationally. Greg Pawson, the chief executive of Kina, stated that the bank was against any rise in corporate tax on the banking industry. “To put into perspective, it is an additional...
Additional company tax on the banking sector will increase from 30 to 45 percent treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey said when presenting the 2023 budget in parliament recently. This is expected to raise K240 million in 2023 to fund core vital services. The additional company tax was initially imposed on companies declaring huge profits such as BSP and Digicel ...
The Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress (PNGTUC) and its affiliated unions have supported the points that were raised by the Minister for international Trade and Investment, Hon Richard Maru on the urgency to investigate companies and businesses that have been operating on loss every financial year. PNGTUC Secretary, Mr Clemence Kanau said no sane pe...
The Minister for state enterprises, William duma has announced the approval that there will be a new commercial bank to be established in the country next year, He stated this when responding to the NCD Governor, Powes Parkop regarding banking related issues in the country in parliament recently. Minister Duma stated that the Marape-Rosso Government ha...
Photo credit: Pixabay The amount of gross foreign exchange reserves at the end of June this year, according to acting Bank of Papua New Guinea governor Benny Popoitai, was US$3.2 billion (about K11.6 billion). At the end of December of last year, there were US$3.2 billion (about K11.3 billion) available. In the bank's March 2022 Quarterly Economi...
PNGX, Papua New Guinea’s national stock exchange, has received the Securities Commission’s approval of the new PNGX Debt Market Rules. The new PNGX Debt Market Rules allow a company to issue corporate bonds and have those bonds listed on PNGX where they can be traded. Corporate bonds are a type of debt security issued by a company. The company may b...
Photo credit: IRC Prime Minister Hon. James Marape today announced a record K9.7 billion tax revenue collection by the Internal Revenue Commission (IRC). He made the announcement as he prepares to travel to London for the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II and as Papua New Guinea prepares to celebrate its 47th Independence anniversary on Friday, ...
The Central Bank has been encouraged to take action and resolve the problem of the country's businesses having a backlog of foreign exchange, according to Prime Minister James Marape. “We’ve reached a K11 billion threshold as far as Forex is concerned. We work to ensure we bring in additional liquidity into the market and so Mr. Popoitai (Central Bank ...
For many of the country's main importers, the problem of lack of foreign exchange availability continues to pose a danger to supply security in the nation. According to Hulala Tokome, Country General Manager and Director of Puma Energy, they are hopeful that a strong framework in terms of government policies would be in place to address these concerns ...
By the end of December 2021, the total public (government) debt still due was K48.1 billion, or 51.6% of the nation's GDP. The present outstanding debt is made up of K25.2 billion from local sources and K22.9 billion from external sources, according to the acting governor of the Bank of PNG Benny Popoitai. Total government deposits at depository fir...
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