Stanbic Bank’s Ronald Muyanja Satanic Bank Uganda recently hosted an investor conference to discuss the status of financial markets in Uganda and its future going forward. Business Focus caught up with Ronald Muyanja, the Head of Trading at Stanbic Bank to discuss the status of financial markets in Uganda and the
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Lloyd Jonathan Busuulwa, Head of Alternative Channels, dfcu Bank Digital technologies have dramatically reshaped industry after industry. Digital transformation is now universally regarded as essential for businesses to remain viable and competitive according to a digital transformation survey done my McKinsey Global. The survey also highlights that businesses are heading
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Even after borrowing one billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Uganda will continue borrowing. IMF Uganda Country Representative Izabela Karpowicz has told URN in an interview that Uganda still has a financing deficit of another one billion dollar about 3.5 trillion Uganda shilling at the current exchange rate.
Read MoreUCDA Managing Director, Dr. Emmanuel Iyamulemye Niyibigira Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) is doing everything possible to ensure that Uganda’s coffee attracts a premium price globally. This has been revealed by UCDA Managing Director, Dr. Emmanuel Iyamulemye Niyibigira in an interview. Iyamulemye says as Uganda pushes to produce 20m 60kg
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Richard Todwong, the newly-appointed National Resistance Movement (NRM) says corruption, greed, nepotism and among others are vices that everyone accuses NRM of need to address head-on. During his tenure as party SG, he says there is need to make the public know that these vices are not only limited to
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The 25-year-old Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa survived cancer Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa was Wednesday June09, 2021 named among the First Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts, a new global community of public and private sector innovators and entrepreneurs accelerating solutions to today’s greatest problems. The selected Catalysts are creating true impact at the cutting
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Michael K. Mugabi, Managing Director, Housing Finance Bank Housing Finance Bank (HFB), an indigenous finance institution is famous for its mortgage product in the banking sector. Herewith, the Bank’s Managing Director, Micheal K. Mugabi shares some of its milestone achievements in the implementation of National Development Plan (NDP II) which spanned
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Angela Ndawula, the Head Business and Institutional Banking at Housing Finance Bank Housing Finance Bank recently launched the Kingdom Development Organ aimed at stimulating community-based resource mobilization in partnership with the Church of Uganda. We caught up with Angela Ndawula, the Head Business and Institutional Banking at Housing Finance Bank
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Aloysious Ssendegeya wants to empower youth through coffee Ugandans are increasingly venturing into coffee value addition as the country’s volumes continue to increase. This is a result of Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) efforts to increase coffee production to 20 60kg million bags by 2025. Aloysious Ssendegeya, 25, is one of
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Nangoli besides his finished products. Kikobero coffee is now exported to UK Martin Nangoli, 47, was born in a poorly managed coffee garden and isolated family in Kikobero village, Masira Sub-county in present day Bulambuli district. He says his family and village were a laughing stock because his parents were hunters whose future looked
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