Mobile money agents are the engine of Uganda’s everyday economy, and this is most visible on weekends. From Friday evening through Sunday, transaction volumes surge as customers trade, pay, and...
Asahi Group Holdings, the Japanese brewing and beverages giant, has picked Absa Bank Kenya PLC, ENS Africa, A&O Shearman and Nomura Holdings to advise on its USD 2.3 billion acquisition...
Airtel Africa on Tuesday announced an agreement with SpaceX to introduce Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity across all its 14 markets that serve 174 million customers. Through this partnership, Airtel Africa...
Stanbic Bank’s Head of Personal Banking, Israel Arinaitwe, often returns to a lesson Adam Smith captured in The Wealth of Nations: economic progress depends on a society’s stock of capital....
Centenary Bank has donated 10 computers to Our Lady of Consolata-Kisubi Hospital in a move aimed at strengthening digital health systems, improving patient record management and enhancing the overall quality...
Vivo Energy has announced a sponsorship of UGX250 million towards this year’s annual Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally, slated for 6th to 8th May 2022. The Shell V-Power…
First of all, tell us about yourself Davis, Dr. Davis Musinguzi is a Medical Doctor and Digital Health Entrepreneur from Uganda. I am the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of…
Prudential Uganda has won three awards; the Most Innovative Life Insurance Product, Most Innovative Insurance Agent and the Overall Judges’ Special Award in the second edition of the Insurance Innovation…
Absa Group headline earnings more than doubled to R18.6 billion in 2021 (R8 billion in 2020), well in excess of 2019 earnings, as pre-provision profit increased and as the impairments…
The March 2022 examinations for the Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (CPA-U) course have commenced, today 14 March 2022, and will go on for 5 days until 18 March. Candidates…
The London based Global Brands Magazine (GBM) has named Anne Juuko, the Chief Executive for Stanbic Bank Uganda as the ‘Best Woman CEO’ in Uganda’s Banking sector for the year…
The Embassy of Ireland in Uganda and Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) on March 10th kicked off St. Patrick’s Day events in Uganda by greening the Independence Monument along Speke Road,…
Centenary Bank launched its bancassurance offering on the 11th July 2019 following the release of the guidelines under the enabling law that allowed Banks to perform the business of Bancassurance….
The bancassurance concept in Uganda was born following the amendments to the Financial Institution Act,2004 in 2006 and, enactment of the Insurance Act, 2017 in which (Bancassurance) is considered as…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has declared its willingness to donate US$85 million to help in running humanitarian operations in Ethiopia. In partnership with the Relief Fund against Famine, the…
