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The 111 women at the heart of Uganda’s banking industry

Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive Profiles Lists & Rankings The Big Story Women In LeadershipJuly 7, 2023March 28, 2024

The Uganda Bankers’ Association’s Chairperson, Citibank’s Sarah Arapta is female too- the first woman to. Some financial institutions such as Finance Trust Bank- have taken it further by having an all-female Board Chairperson, CEO and Executive Director while others like Stanbic Bank, Uganda’s largest Bank and have both CEO and Executive Director as female. You could argue this is still under-representation, which it actually is, given that there are more females than males in the population, but given where we have come from, this is good progress. Some of the largest banks such as Stanbic where 45% is female and…

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FINCA@30: Who are the 13 top executives leading FINCA’s mission to provide innovative and impactful financial services to Uganda’s low-income earners?

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial Services News & Analysis The Big StoryAugust 12, 2022September 9, 2022

In line with its purpose of being an “unconventional community-based bank that responsibly provides innovative and impactful financial services”, FINCA has also maintained health profitability. For example, in 2019, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, FINCA registered UGX6 billion in net profit. Although the pandemic affected its customer’s ability to service their loans, FINCA still registered a decent profit of UGX2.2billion and UGX2.4billion in 2020 and 2021 respectively. The healthy financial performance has enhanced FlNCA’s stability, in line with all the regulatory capital requirements. For example, the core capital and total capital adequacy as of the end of 2021,…

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