Saving Smart: Stanbic’s Israel Arinaitwe on How Ugandans Can Build Wealth from Any Income Level Saving is not about how much you earn, but about how deliberately you live. In this candid conversation, Stanbic Bank Uganda’s Head of Personal Banking, Israel Arinaitwe, unpacks why saving is the true foundation of personal and national growth, how ordinary Ugandans can build wealth from any income level, and why the bank’s Keep Growing campaign is a call for mindset change as much as financial discipline.

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. To him, it’s not just a theory—it’s a mindset Ugandans can adopt to improve their lives today and strengthen the future for generations to come. In an interview with the CEO East Africa Magazine, Israel frames that idea through Stanbic Bank’s latest brand campaign, Keep Growing. He describes it as more than a slogan, rather, a national call to action aligned to the bank’s purpose. “At Stanbic, we say, Uganda…