As part of its five-year partnership with Buganda kingdom Airtel Uganda Tuesday morning handed over a contribution of Shs50m towards the birthday celebrations of the Kabaka of Buganda, Ssabasajja Ronald Muwenda Mutebi. The partnership with Buganda Kingdom supports four of its main annual activities including the Kabaka’s birthday celebrations, Kabaka Birthday
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dfcu Bank is in the initial stages of designing an innovative solution for on-boarding new customers. This follows the signing of a contract with the FinTech Company Laboremus Uganda on the 19th of March2018 to accelerate the digitization of its banking systems. The contract will allow the partners to jointly
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In line with KCB Bank Uganda’s strategy to focus on digital channels and the onset of agency banking, the bank has merged its Kikuubo and Ben Kiwanuka Street branches. This is expected to cut the bank’s operational costs. The merger, according to Joram Kiarie, the Managing Director KCB Bank Uganda
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South Africa’s MTN has signed an agreement to form a partnership with Pan-African Bank- Ecobank on mobile banking across Africa, the telecoms group and lender said on Tuesday. Rob Shuter, group CEO of MTN, and Ade Ayeyemi, CEO of Ecobank, attended the signing in Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria.
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The groundbreaking Ecobank Mobile App, a single, unified financial services application across 33 African countries, has processed 9 million transactions worth over $1 billion (Shs3.6 trillion) since launch less than 18 months ago. With over 4 million users, the Ecobank Mobile App is available to all, enabling users to open
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In line with the Education pillar of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, Airtel Uganda has handed over 100 goats to 50 girls in Moroto district in a bid to join in the fundraising campaign #GOATSFORGIRLS that aims at keeping young girls in the Karamoja region in school. This handover follows
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MTN Uganda Limited has confirmed that confidential information of Justine Bagyenda's Mobile Money transcation records leaked to the public. Bagyenda is a former Executive Director Supervision at Bank of Uganda. Recently Bagyenda’s MTN Mobile Money transactions records leaked, indicating that she had transacted over Shs500m in a period of three
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Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook, the BBC reports. "When you're building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world," he said on Wednesday, "there are things that you're going to mess up.
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A smartphone app to help women identify if they are in an abusive relationship and safely leave will be launched in some African countries next year, its developer said. Myplan - an app developed by researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing - has about 10,000 users in
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Uchumi Supermarkets is set to explore the e-commerce sector to maximize profit and reduce operational costs, Business Daily reports. Acting chief executive officer Mohamed Mohamed said the supermarket is in the process of creating an online platform in the third quarter of the year. Mr Mohamed was speaking during a
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