The central bank of Ghana says it will consider giing a license for the regime of Islamic banking in the country if a formal request is made.

According to the governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, the Bank will consider such a regime if a “formal request is made”.

“For now there has been no request for us to consider Islamic banking from any group,” Amissah-Arthur told journalists in Accra December 21, 2011.