HFC Bank opens Adabraka branch

HFC bank has opened a branch at Adabraka in Accra, bringing its total branches to 21.

At a short ceremony to commission the building, the Managing Director of HFC, Asare Akuffo, assured that the bank will continue to exhibit well class financial services in all its endevours to ensure a continued success in the banking sector.

He urged businesses, professionals and individuals in the area to access the bank’s unique banking services, which include commercial, mortgage and investment banking, real estate services and micro-finance.

HFC bank is an indigenous entity with several Ghanaian shareholders.

Managing Director of HFC-Boafo Micro-Finance called on traders within the catchment area to patronize the micro finance product of the bank saying it will improve their welfare thereby helping to fight poverty.

The Boafo Micro-Finance currently has about 4,000 clients. Some of its products and services include the SNNIT Informal Sector Fund scheme and the susu scheme, busy bee, Home Improvement in five areas (HI5) which include land acquisition, construction, fixtures, furnishing and roofing among others.

The Boafo Micro-Finance operates in 10 branches of the bank which are located where informal sector are most recorded.

The bank which is currently operating in eight regions plans to cover the whole country in the next five years.

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