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Purpose-Driven Lending: Furaha’s Vision for Transforming Education Finance In Uganda After a distinguished career spanning over two decades at Standard Chartered Bank, which, amongst other achievements, includes leading teams that built nine digital banks for the global bank, Yustus Aribariho returns home to Uganda to build Furaha, an education-focused digital lending platform. Furaha is a financial technology platform that focuses on purpose-driven lending. In Uganda, Furaha has chosen to kickstart its focus on the education sector by assembling an ecosystem that connects more than 14,000 schools, banks, telcos, school payment aggregators and credit bureaus to plug into the Furaha platform and process school fee loans.

Yustus Aribariho, one of Uganda’s finest brains in the financial services space, has spent more than two decades of his banking career at Standard Chartered Bank. He is no stranger to digital transformation programs and has vast experience across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Until recently, he was the Global Head of Digital Platforms for Standard Chartered Bank, based in Dubai, UAE. With that experience, Yustus decided to step down from the role in January 2024 and, with funding from Standard Chartered Ventures (SC Ventures), co-founded Furaha Financial Limited, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. Standard Chartered Ventures is…

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Muhereza Kyamutetera is the Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine. I am a travel enthusiast and the Experiences & Destinations Marketing Manager at EDXTravel. Extremely Ugandaholic. Ask me about #1000Reasons2ExploreUganda and how to Take Your Place In The African Sun.