Anthony Ndegwa

The total assets of Uganda’s financial services industry reached UGX.45.81 trillion, or 44.3 percent of Uganda’s GDP, as at end December 2018. The banking sector, dominated 69% of these assets, followed by Pension Funds at 22%, then Funds under Management (6%) and lastly the insurance sector at 3%, according to Bank of Uganda’s Financial Stability Report, June 2019. According to the report, as at end June 2019, the banking sector, continued to flourish with commercial banks accounting for 95.2 percent (UGX30.3 trillion) of the banking sector’s total assets of UGX.31.8 trillion. This was followed by the Microfinance Deposit-taking Institutions (MDIs)…