What began as one of the most closely watched cross border banking acquisition plans in East Africa has now officially fallen apart. The proposed takeover of Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank…
Finance Trust Bank posted a record 178% profit growth in 2024, driven by strategic partnerships, a customer-focused business model, and major investments in women’s empowerment. The Bank now eyes an…
In yet another solid step towards its 5-year growth and expansion strategy to become the “World’s Most Respected African Bank”, Access Bank Plc has announced that it has signed a…
Emma Mugisha, the current Executive Director and Head of Business Banking at Stanbic Bank Uganda has been picked by Nigeria’s pan-African Access Bank Plc, for a continental regional role, that…
Herbert Wigwe, the Group CEO of Access Holdings Plc, whose subsidiary bank, Access Bank Plc has just acquired Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank has died in a U.S. helicopter accident. He died…
Access Bank Plc (Access), one of Africa’s largest banking groups, is acquiring 80% of Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank, it has been confirmed. CEO East Africa Magazine first broke news of…
Access Bank Plc (Access), one of Africa’s largest banking groups, is set to acquire Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank, highly-placed industry sources have told CEO East Africa Magazine. Access Bank Plc,…
Standard Chartered (the Bank) and Access Bank Plc (Access) have today, July 14th entered into agreements for the sale of Standard Chartered’s shareholding in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, The…
On the 16th of November 2022, the Financial Institutions (Revision of Minimum Capital Requirements) Instrument 2022 was signed into law by Uganda’s Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MFPED),…
