Miranda Bageine Musoke, dfcu Bank’s Head of Personal Banking. Uganda has the third-highest population growth rate in Africa and a significantly high rural to urban migration rate. These trends underline the need for more housing units. dfcu Bank recently launched a campaign to encourage Home Ownership. Miranda Bageine Musoke, dfcu
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Participants listening attentively to panelists PostBank is taking up the lead in carrying out financial literacy training mainly targeting young people in a bid to embrace savings for the long term. On Wednesday ,the Bank and its partners UAP, Bank of Uganda and Uganda Insurers Association convened a financial wellness class
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President Museveni (in white shirt) in a group photo with Uganda Bankers' Association members at State House Entebbe yesterday President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged banks to lend cautiously. “On the issue of land evictions, I'd like to clarify that if a bank foolishly or in connivance with tricksters accepts to lend money
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Equity Group CEO James Mwangi Equity Bank Group has been named the top lender in the region by capitalisation, reflecting the room it has to fund businesses. The ranking by African Business, based on the tier-one capital buffer, has placed Equity ahead of its rivals in East Africa. The lender’s
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Julius Kakeeto, the Managing Director/CEO, PostBank UAP Old Mutual is partnering with PostBank to organize a financial wellness class hosted on Twitter Spaces, Facebook as well as Zoom and YouTube. The webinar themed "Learn, Grow, Protect Your Finances,” will be moderated by TV personality, Mildred Tuhaise and is set to
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dfcu bank and Jumia officials in a group photo after announcing the partnership dfcu Bank has today announced a new promotion and partnership with Jumia Uganda that will see the Bank’s Visa Debit and Credit Card holders enjoy discounts of up to 20% when they use their cards to purchase items
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Michael Atingi-Ego, the BoU Deputy Governor The Bank of Uganda (BoU), the Uganda Institute of Banking and Financial Services (UIBFS), the Uganda Bankers' Association (UBA), financial sector regulatory institutions, financial service providers, development partners, and other stakeholders have jointly invited all savers to entrust their money with the regulated financial institutions.
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The government has started implementing guidelines that are aimed at ensuring that money kept under informal saving methods is protected and accounted for. This includes money that Ugandans keep in their houses or elsewhere, which is estimated to be in hundreds of billions of Shillings. The least formal means of
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Housing Finance Bank says one can build a decent house from Shs30m upwards Housing Finance Bank Wednesday evening tipped Ugandans on how to achieve affordable housing. This was during a Twitter Spaces hosted jointly by the Bank and media personality, Moses Rudende. The discussion comes as statistics show that Uganda has
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Central Banks in the East African Community countries will soon be connected to the Pan African Payments and Settlement System-PAPSS, a platform that aims at easing trade within the continent. The platform which was formally launched in January 2022, allows companies in Africa to pay for trade transactions in local
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