Last week, Airtel Uganda released its full 2025 financial results, underscoring a year of accelerated growth, tighter operational discipline, and structural digital transformation under Managing Director Soumendra Sahu and Board…
For years, Uganda’s digital lending sector has expanded at breathtaking speed, but without the underlying visibility required to support responsible growth. Borrowers have increasingly turned to mobile money as their…
A decade ago, Africa’s fintech revolution began as a response to one of the continent’s most persistent challenges: access to finance. In 2011, only 23% of people in sub-Saharan Africa…
At least UGX 88.1 billion remains unclaimed in closed mobile money and other e-money accounts, a Bank of Uganda report shows. The money, which is currently held Bank of Uganda…
Airtel Africa is preparing to take its mobile money arm, Airtel Money, public in the first half of 2026, with Citigroup advising on the process, a Bloomberg report shows. The…
Bank of Uganda (BoU) Governor Michael Atingi-Ego has advised Ugandans who believe they have been defrauded through mobile money to first report the matter to their service provider and, if…
By David Birungi We have all seen the campaign on his Twitter (X) handle. Dr Spire, an accountability crusader, uses his now huge following on social media to hold government,…
In this exclusive interview, Moses Akampurira, Digital Products Lead at Letshego Uganda, gives us a front-row seat into how this breakthrough is unfolding on the ground. Powered by real-time behavioural…
Looking back, 10 years ago, the whole concept of credit health was just beginning to take shape—banks were only starting to engage, and technology hadn’t really entered the scene yet….
In Uganda’s fast-evolving digital financial landscape, two telecom titans—MTN MoMo and Airtel Money—are locked in a high-stakes, trillion-shilling duel. Their battlefield? Mobile money. Their weapons? Revenue, reach, profitability, and performance….
