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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]
The Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) is a government agency responsible for the licensing, supervision and regulation of Tier-4 micro finance institutions, money lenders, savings cooperatives and any money-lending institution with capital of less than USh500 million (US$140,000).
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.
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.
An application was made to the Bank of Uganda for the issuance of an MDI banking license. In October 2011, a Tier III MDI licence was granted, and MDI operations began on 10 October 2011. As of March 2014 [update] , the institution's total assets were about US$10.07 million (UGX:25.34 billion), with shareholders' equity of about US$2.25 million ...
The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) is a semi-autonomous government agency, established by Act of Parliament in 1998 in Uganda.URSB is responsible for civil registrations (including marriages and divorces but not including births, adoptions, or deaths), business registrations (setups and liquidations), registration of patents and intellectual property rights, insolvency and ...
The centre is located at 1 Baskerville Avenue, in the neighborhood of Kololo, in the Kampala Central Division, in Uganda's capital city of Kampala, approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi), by road north-east of the city's center. [3] The geographical coordinates of the center: 0°19'44.0"N, 32°36'04.0"E (Latitude:0.328889; Longitude:32.601111). [4]
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.