UG Wins 2026 National Banking & Ethics Challenge (NBEC)
University of Ghana have been announced Champions of the second edition of the National Banking & Ethics Challenge (NBEC) after edging past UPSA(29.5 points) and UDS(26 points) with 31.5 points.
The Competition organized by the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB) Ghana, aims at promoting financial literacy, ethics, and professional standards among university students in Ghana’s financial sector.
The 2026 edition of the NBEC which happens to be the second ever edition of the competition featured 12 Universities across 5 regions,an addition of 4 regions unlike last year’s edition which featured only schools from the Greater Accra Region.
As the winning team, the UG contestants will enjoy full scholarships on the registration, tuition and examination of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Professional Examination with Other contestants from the other 11 universities will enjoy 100% scholarships on Registration.
The top 3 teams also earned some cash prizes courtesy of Absa Bank. All Contestants will also have the opportunity with to intern with GCB as part of the rewards.
Speaking with Business Outlook Africa during the Competition,CEO of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Mr Robert Dzato, ACIB hinted of plans to expand both the scope and size of the competition.
“The first thing that will change is that we expect a number of universities to come on board from 5 to 12. Next year we’ll get bigger and better and potentially we could have a southern zone and a northern zone as well so that we don’t complicate every university here.That for us is very very fundamental. The second part is we expect some regulatory changes we have to bring those regulatory parts to. Things around non-conformity loans, things around digital assets, Crypto is a new development area.So these are new things that we’ll have to bring to improve upon the content in terms of the knowledge that we’re sharing ” he stated.
The competition according to experts is not only tailored for student but for banking professionals and the general public as well to deepen the trust in the banking sector .
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