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(Left to Right) MTN Uganda Chairman Charles Mbire, MTN Uganda chief executive officer Sylvia Mulinge, and MTN Mobile Money managing director Richard Yego, will, on July 2, be part of an extraordinary meeting where shareholders will vote on the proposed spin-off of MoMo, the Fintech unit from the telco, MTN Uganda.

Spinning off value? MoMo’s exit tests MTNU’s shareholder promise

Uganda’s biggest Fintech, MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), is moving out of the family home. Long treated as just another product line within the telecom’s machinery, MoMo is being carved out into a

June 17, 2025

Banking & Financial Services·Global News·News & Analysis·Technology & Innovation·The Big Story

Capital Markets Authority clears buyers to invest in Buildnet’s multi-billion Waterfront Hotel Apartments Munyonyo project

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has given Buildnet the go-ahead to proceed with its media advertising content, which the Regulator had earlier disputed. This follows some amendments by Buildnet in the wording

December 12, 2024

Company News·News & Analysis·Real Estate & Construction·The Big Story

Building Wealth, One Bond at a Time: The Alex Kakande Story.

On 26th March 2024, there was a poll on X (formerly Twitter) in which 3,794 people voted. The poll was a vote between building a home or buying bonds. At the end

June 28, 2024

Executive Profiles·News & Analysis·The Big Story

Suzan Mweheire Kitariko (left) and Keith Kalyegira.

Susan Kitariko and Keith Kalyegira join Airtel Uganda Board

The Board of Directors of Airtel Uganda Limited has, according to Rules 36(2) and 54 of the Uganda Securities Exchange Listing Rules 2021, appointed Mrs. Suzan Mweheire Kitariko as an Independent Non-Executive

April 4, 2024

Company News·The Big Story

Q&A: Absa Bank’s David Wandera’s take on the financial markets in 2023 and 2024 and the 6th of February release of Absa’s #AFMIndex2023

Ahead of the event, David Wandera FCCA, the Absa Executive Director & Head of Financial Markets discusses the financial markets landscape in 2023 and why it is important for financial markets actors,

February 3, 2024

The Big Story

#AFMIndex2024 speakers, left-right; clockwise: Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST); Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego, the Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor; Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka, Partner at Sejjaaka, Kaawaase & Company; Jeff Gable, the Head of Macro and Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at Absa Group; Alan N. Lwetabe, (CFA, CAIA, CIPM), Director Investments, Deposit Protection Fund of Uganda; Dickson Ssembuya, the Ag. CEO and Director, Research & Market Development at Uganda's Capital Markets Authority; Dr. Sarah Ssewanyana, the Executive Director of the Economic Policy Research Centre and Patrick Ayota, the Managing Director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF).

PSST Ggoobi and BoU’s Dr. Atingi-Ego to headline Absa’s #AFMIndex2023 and Economic Outlook Forum

Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) and Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego, the Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor are headlining this year’s Africa Financial Markets Index (AFMI) Report Presentation

February 3, 2024

Company News·News & Analysis·The Big Story

Keith Kalyegira, outgoing Chief Executive Officer, Capital Markets Authority.

Q&A: After 10 years leading Uganda’s Capital Markets Authority, what’s next for Keith Kalyegira?

After serving two terms in office, Keith Kalyegira will this December step down. In this interview with CEO East Africa’s Muhereza Kyamutetera, he shares a variety of insights on his time at

October 30, 2023

C-Suite Leadership·CEO Perspectives·Politics & Goverment·The Big Story

Level Africa's Founder and CEO, Abraham Banaddawa

How Abraham Banaddawa is Democratising Investment with Level Africa.

When Abraham Banaddawa was studying medicine in the USA, he realised he wasn’t going to change much in the world. This realisation made him change courses to Business Administration where he would

September 7, 2023

Entrepreneurship·Technology & Innovation·The Big Story

An Illustration of Virtual Assets Regulation.

Uganda’s Capital Markets Authority (Amendment) 2023 Bill: A Breakthrough in Virtual Assets Regulation.

On 16th November 2022, the Jinja South East Division MP, Nathan Nabeta Igeme tabled a motion to seek leave of Parliament to table the Capital Markets Bill. Parliament unanimously granted the motion

July 13, 2023

Business & Markets·Entrepreneurship·News & Analysis·Technology & Innovation·The Big Story

Stephen Kaboyo, Founder and Managing Director Alpha Capital Partners

August 5 – August 12, 2022: Weekly financial markets review and outlook with Stephen Kaboyo

The Uganda Shilling pared losses after struggling for momentum against a bullish dollar. The shilling rally was driven mainly by domestic factors that dented demand. Trading was in the range of 3805/15.

August 12, 2022

Banking & Financial Services·News & Analysis

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