GHANA Enhancing the Macroprudential PolicyFramework and Toolkit April2026 Prepared By TengTeng Xu (Mission Chief, MCM), Jaunius Karmelavičius (MCM), and Tomáš Konečný(External Expert) Authoring Departments/Institutions Monetary and Capital MarketsDepartment The contents of this document constitute technical advice provided by the staff of the InternationalMonetary Fund to the authorities of Bank of Ghana (the "CD recipient") in response to their request fortechnical assistance. Unless the CD recipient specifically objects to such disclosure, this document (inwhole or in part) or summaries thereof may be disclosed by the IMF to the IMF Executive Director forGhana, to other IMF Executive Directors and members of their staff, as well as to other agencies orinstrumentalities of the CD recipient, and upon their request, to World Bank staff, and other technicalassistance providers and donors with legitimate interest (see Staff Operational Guidance on theDissemination of Capacity Development Information). Publication or Disclosure of this report (in whole orin part) to parties outside the IMF other than agencies or instrumentalities of the CD recipient, World Bankstaff, other technical assistance providers and donors with legitimate interest, shall require the explicitconsent of the CD recipient and the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets department. The analysis and policy considerations expressed in this publication are those of the IMF’s Monetary andCapital Markets Department. Contents Recommendations __________________________________________________________________8 I. Introduction _____________________________________________________________________10 II. Institutional Framework ___________________________________________________________11 A. Institutional Framework for Macroprudential Policy at the BoG ______________________________11B. Recommendations ________________________________________________________________15 III. Systemic Risk Monitoring and the Macroprudential Toolkit_____________________________19 A. Systemic Risk Framework at the BoG _________________________________________________20B. Macroprudential Measures and their Operation at the BoG ________________________________21C. Recommendations ________________________________________________________________23 IV.Technical Guidance on D-SIB and CCyb Frameworks__________________________________27 A. The D-SIB Framework: Overview and Recommendations __________________________________27B. The CCyB Framework: Overview and Recommendations__________________________________31 Figures 1. The Macroprudential Process .................................................................................................................172. Sorted D-SIB Scores and Sensitivity to Changes in Cut-off Thresholds ................................................293. Mapping of D-SIB Score to HLA Buckets ...............................................................................................304. Credit-to-GDP Ratio and HP-Filtered Credit Gap (Basel Methodology, λ = 400,000)............................325. Credit-to-GDP Gap–Year-on-Year Contributions of Nominal Private Credit and Nominal GDP ............326. Alternative Credit Indicators vs Basel Gap .............................................................................................337. Illustrative Example–Mapping Real Private Sector Credit Growth to CCyB Rates.................................348. NPL Ratio, Credit Indicators, and Positive CCyB Rates.........................................................................349. Decision Guide for CCyB Activation and Build-Up .................................................................................34 Tables 1. Key Recommendations .............................................................................................................................82. Illustrative Example—Indicators and Weights for the Revised D-SIB Framework .................................283. Number of Identified Banks and -Δ100bps Change in Cut-off Score .....................................................294. Countries with Past CCyB Activation and PN CCyB Framework Adoption ............................................35 Annexes I. The D-SIB Methodology...........................................................................................................................37II. The CCyB Methodology and Toolkit .......................................................................................................43 Glossary BBMBorrower-Based MeasuresBCBSBasel Committee for Banking SupervisionBoEBank of EnglandBoGBank of GhanaBSDBanking Supervision DepartmentBSSIBankingSectorSoundness IndexCCoBCapital Conservation BufferCCyBCountercyclical Capital BufferCET1Common Equity Tier 1CRDCapital Requirements DirectiveCRRCash Reserve RatioDDEPDomestic Debt Exchange ProgramDRCDifferenced Relative CreditD-SIBDomestic Systemically Important BankDSTIDebt-Servi