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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]
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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]
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).
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Letshego Microfinance Uganda, (also Letshego Microfinance Uganda Limited (LMUL)), whose official name is Letshego Uganda Limited, is a Tier IV microfinance institution in Uganda. LMUL is a microfinance company that offers SME loans, mortgage loans, and education loans, among other forms of lending. The company also offers savings accounts. [3]
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Instead of paying with cash, cheque, or credit card, a consumer can use a payment app on a mobile device to pay for a wide range of services and digital or hard goods. Although the concept of using non-coin-based currency systems has a long history, [ 1 ] it is only in the 21st century that the technology to support such systems has become ...