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    Women in Banking

    Grace Muliisa Leads Ecobank Uganda’s Turnaround as 2024 Profits Hit UGX10.8 Billion

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025

    Ecobank Uganda has released its 2024 results, showing a remarkable increase in lending, a cleaner loan book, leading to increased revenues and profits — consolidating a turnaround that began under…

    Standard Chartered Bank appoints Prudence Byarugaba as Country Chief Risk Officer and Country Head of Operational Risk for Uganda

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsExecutive ProfilesWomen In LeadershipAugust 9, 2023August 9, 2023

    Prudence Byarugaba has been appointed as the Country Chief Risk Officer and Country Head of Operational Risk at Standard Chartered Bank Uganda Limited effective 15th July 2023. According to a statement by the…

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

    Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesLists & RankingsThe Big StoryWomen 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…

    PROFILE: 7 years of Sarah Arapta as Chief Executive of Citibank Uganda

    Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipJune 17, 2023July 1, 2023

    Sarah Arapta is the Chief Executive and Managing Director for Citibank Uganda, Uganda’s 10th largest bank by assets. She has held this role since January 2016.  Sarah has had an…

    A conversation with Stanbic’s Anne Juuko— her rise to the top, leading Uganda’s largest bank through a pandemic and building a future-ready inclusive bank

    Muhereza KyamuteteraExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipMarch 8, 2023March 9, 2023

    The interview takes place at her office on the 11th floor of the imposing Crested Towers building where Stanbic Uganda corporate headquarters are located. Getting there earlier than the noon…

    #CEOOFTHEWEEK: Annet Nakawunde Mulindwa, a lioness in banking and a champion of women’s financial inclusion

    Muhereza KyamuteteraLists & RankingsThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipApril 28, 2022April 28, 2022

    CEO East Africa Magazine would like to recognize, Annet Nakawunde Mulindwa, the Managing Director of Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank. This week, the bank released its 2021 financial performance results, reporting…

    PUTTING WOMEN’S FINANCIAL INCLUSION FIRST: Finance Trust Bank’s 2021 net profit grows 57 per cent

    Muhereza KyamuteteraCompany NewsThe Big StoryWomen In LeadershipApril 27, 2022April 28, 2022

    Finance Trust Bank, has today released its 2021 financial performance results, reporting yet another year of strong growth. According to the results, the bank, despite a challenging 2021, registered double-digit…

    Stanbic’s Anne Juuko Named ‘Best Woman CEO’ by Global Brands Magazine

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsNews & AnalysisWomen In LeadershipMarch 14, 2022March 14, 2022

    The London based Global Brands Magazine (GBM) has named Anne Juuko, the Chief Executive for Stanbic Bank Uganda as the ‘Best Woman CEO’ in Uganda’s Banking sector for the year…

    Roselyn Najjuma crosses from Stanbic to head transactional banking at Standard Chartered Bank, Uganda

    Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial ServicesCompany NewsWomen In LeadershipNovember 9, 2020November 9, 2020

    Roselyn Najjuma Thabit, previously Stanbic Bank Uganda’s Head, Products, overseeing the Lending, Liabilities, Card, Bancassurance and Vehicle and Asset Finance solutions in the Personal and Business Banking division has joined…

    OPINION: Women are playing a significant role in Covid-19 responses at all levels; they too must remain central in the post-Covid-19 future

    theceomaThought LeadershipJune 10, 2020June 10, 2020

    By Anne Juuko Africa’s progress in empowering women risks being undone if authorities’ responses to the Covid-19 crisis do not take gender issues into account. Most notably, access to funding…

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