With only a few days left to the June 30th 2023 compliance deadline for banks that failed to raise UGX120 billion in both share capital and core capital by December 31st 2022, a number of the affected banks are in last-minute mad dashes to raise the capital needed or else face a raft of regulatory sanctions that could include closure. According to a tabulation by CEO East Africa Magazine, as of December 2022, out of the 25 banks, as per published financial results, at least 10 banks didn’t meet the thresholds on share capital while 11 did not meet the…
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The interview takes place against a backdrop of significant positive performance, as reported in the 2022 published financials. Equity Bank Uganda, registered significant growth, reporting a 32% growth in customer numbers from 1.222 million to 1.613 million and a 39% growth in the number of agents from 5,572 agents to 7,727 agents as well as 6,048 merchants. This fuelled a 21% growth in deposits from UGX 2.29 trillion to UGX2.76 trillion and subsequently a 6% growth in credit supply from UGX1.54 trillion to UGX 1.63 trillion. Increased deposits and lending fuelled a 22.6% growth in total income, from UGX382.7 billion…
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KCB Bank Uganda, a subsidiary of KCB Group, one of East Africa’s largest financial groups, reported that its net profit for 2022, grew by an impressive 344.6% from UGX7.4 billion in 2021 to UGX32.9 billion⏤the highest ever in the bank’s 15-year history in Uganda. This was driven by a 30.5% rise in income, from UGX90.9 billion to UGX118.6 billion, largely on account of a 60.7% growth in interest income on loans and advances from UGX44.2 billion to UGX81 billion. Income from lending formed 60% of the bank’s total income in 2022. KCB in 2022 pumped up its credit supply by…
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Despite taking a 46.7% drop in 2022 net profit, Equity Bank Uganda still managed to make significant growth and key market share gains in customer deposits, lending, income and assets and capped off the year, by breaking into Uganda’s top 5 banks club. In the just released results, Equity Bank reported a 21% growth in deposits from UGX 2.29 trillion to UGX2.76 trillion- an increase of UGX469.9 billion. This enabled Equity to leap from the 5th largest bank by deposits position, to the 3rd largest, overtaking standard Chartered Bank and Absa Bank Uganda. Top of the market is Stanbic Bank…
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Housing Finance Bank (HFB) on Wednesday 3rd May 2023, opened the opening of its 8th branch in Hoima City, with a promise to “provide the people of Hoima City and the surrounding areas with access to a wide range of banking services”. The new branch is located on Plot 45 – 57 Fort Portal Road, Bunyoro Kitara Building. The launch ceremony – was graced by Mr. Hannington Wasswa, Director of Commercial Banking at the Bank of Uganda and Dr. Fred Kabagambe-Kaliisa, Senior Presidential Advisor on Oil, Gas, and Mineral Industries. Several other dignitaries and guests from the district and…
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Diamond Trust Bank Uganda, the Ugandan subsidiary of the Kenya-headquartered Diamond Trust Bank Group has released its 2022 financials reporting double-digit growth in deposits, lending, income, profits and assets. According to results made public last, DTB Uganda reported a 25% growth in deposits from UGX1.5 trillion in 2021 to UGX1.88 trillion⏤ an increase of UGX375.6 billion. The bank also reported that it extended 15.8% more credit than it did in 2021, extending some UGX791.3 billion in loans, to retail, SME and corporate clients, up from UGX 683.4 billion in 2021. Growth in lending fuelled a 14.9% growth in income from…
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Housing Finance Bank, the government of Uganda and NSSF-owned lender is now Uganda’s 5th most profitable bank, jumping three positions from the 8th in 2021. In 2022 results released last week, the bank reported that net profit grew by a record 42.7% growth from UGX41 billion to UGX58.5 billion. The bank increased its share of industry profits from 3.2% to 4.5%. In total 23 of 25 banks reported profits in 2022- a combined UGX1.29 trillion, up from 1.08 trillion in 2021. The top 4 profitable banks are Stanbic (UGX366 billion), Centenary Bank 9UGX249.6 billion), Absa Bank Uganda (UGX141.2 billion) and…
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For many of us, 2022 seemed like the year we had been hoping for. We were going to put the pandemic behind us and find some sort of return to normalcy. Unfortunately, if the past two to three years have taught us anything, it is that we must be highly adaptable to volatility and uncertainty. According to data from the Ministry of Finance, the Ugandan economy grew by 4.7% in 2022, while both the Purchase Managers Index (PMI) and Business Tendency Index remained above the 50-mark threshold signalling optimism and improvement in economic conditions. On the supply side, services and…
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Absa Bank Uganda has this morning released its 2022 financial results, reporting growth in deposits, lending, revenues as well as net profit and assets. The bank, a subsidiary of Absa Group, one of Africa’s largest financial services Groups announced that customer deposits in 2022, grew by UGX34.8 billion, from UGX2.42 trillion in 2021 to UGX2.46 trillion in 2022, a growth of 1.4%. Deposits’ growth was on the back of an “increase in the active customer base as a result of new-to-bank acquisitions and reactivation of inactive accounts”. “Additionally, there were increased customer engagements due to the capabilities built by the…
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CEO East Africa Magazine, on January 18th 2023 broke the story that Charles Mwanyara Mudiwa, the former Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic Bank Kenya had been appointed as the next Chief Executive Officer of dfcu Bank in Uganda, pending Bank of Uganda approval. Although Jimmy Mugerwa, the Chairman dfcu Limited, the holding company for the bank at the time, denied the appointment on phone with this reporter, the bank yesterday, finally confirmed that indeed Mr. Mudiwa would be taking up the position effective 11th April 2023. Mudiwa, a financial services veteran with over 26 years of experience, 21 of them,…
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