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Shivani Siroya is the founder and chief executive officer of Tala, a smartphone lending app. She founded the app [1] in 2011 to offer instant credit scores to people in underrepresented markets such as Kenya, Tanzania, India, and the Philippines. [2] [3] The app also acts as a lender and has granted more than $225M [4] in microloans as of 2018. [5]
Exodus Sacco is the second-largest security forces-related Sacco in Uganda, behind the much bigger Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society. [2] As of December 2019, membership in Exodus Sacco had risen to over 30,000, and total assets were valued in excess of USh20 billion (US$5.5 million).
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).
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 ...
By 2015, it said it had powered 150,000 households in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, with around 10,000 mobile payments made by users on its cloud platform, M-Kopanet, made on a daily basis. [1] It had over $40 million of revenue by 2015. [11] [12] In 2015, M-Kopa estimated that 80 percent of its customers lived on less than $2 a day. [13]
This is a "list of licensed credit institution in Uganda". [1] BRAC Uganda Bank Limited [2] [3] Yako Bank Uganda Limited; Opportunity Bank Uganda Limited [4] Guaranty Trust Bank Uganda [4] ABC Capital Bank Uganda [4]
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.
Equity Bank Uganda Limited (EBUL), is a commercial bank in Uganda.It is licensed by the Bank of Uganda, the central bank and national banking regulator. [4] EBUL is a subsidiary of Equity Group Holdings Limited, a financial service conglomerate with headquarters in Kenya and subsidiaries in six countries of the African Great Lakes Region.