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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).
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.
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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 Development Finance Company of Uganda Limited was established in 1964, with its name changing in 2000 to DFCU Limited [5] and eventually to dfcu Limited. [10] In 2000, dfcu Limited acquired Gold Trust Bank, which subsequently became dfcu Bank.