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This is a list of regulated "Microfinance Deposit-taking Institutions" in Uganda. They are supervised and regulated by the Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA). [1] FINCA Uganda Limited [2] Pride Microfinance Limited [2] UGAFODE Microfinance Limited [2]
UGAFODE was founded in 1994 as the Uganda Agency for Development Limited, a non-governmental organization whose primary objective was to provide affordable financial services to its customers. In September 2010, in preparation to become an MDI, UGAFODE Microfinance Limited was incorporated as a limited company.
The institution was founded in 2005 as Micro Provident Uganda Limited. In 2012, the business re-branded to Letshego Uganda Limited. In 2013, Letshego Holdings Limited acquired control of Micro Africa Limited, a Kenya-based microfinance institution with subsidiaries in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan. The two operations in Uganda were ...
This is a list of commercial banks and other credit institutions in Uganda, as updated March 2023 by the Bank of Uganda [1] [2] and taking into account the more recent downgrading of three banks to other credit institutions.
In 2003, the Uganda government acquired 100 percent shareholding in the enterprise, changing the name to Pride Microfinance Limited Uganda. [3] In 2005, it attained the status of a Tier III (an MDI), according to the Banking Act of 2003.
As of 2008, Stanbic Uganda was the dominant commercial bank in Uganda, with about 27 percent of all bank assets and about 20 percent of all bank branches. [ 6 ] Nile Bank Limited , an indigenous institution, was acquired by the British conglomerate Barclays in January 2007 and merged with its existing Ugandan operations to form the Barclays ...
The institution was established in Uganda in 2006, as BRAC Microfinance Limited, with the objective of expanding financial inclusion in the country and serving the rural poor, specially women. At the time it acquired Tier II banking status in April 2019, the bank served over 270,000 customers in at least 80 of Uganda's 136 districts. [6] [7]
FINCA Uganda was licensed as an MDI in 2004, although the institution has been in the country since 1992. [4]FINCA provides financial services to Uganda's lowest-income entrepreneurs with the aim of alleviating poverty through lasting solutions that help people to create jobs, build assets, and improve their standard of living.