NAIROBI, April 18 (Reuters) - Kenya's fast-growing Equity Bank said it plans to acquire Uganda Microfinance in an all-share deal worth 1.66 billion shillings ($26.9 million). Uganda Microfinance, a ...

Nova Microfinance, a provider of financial services, has teamed up with Simba Automotives Limited, one of Uganda's largest motorbike companies to increase access to both fuel-powered and electric ...

Ugandan commercial banks are invading lower end, riskier, segments of the market in a bid to make more sales and take advantage of drying credit opportunities. Now experts say this reflects both ...

KAMPALA, Uganda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uganda is home to 25 commercial banks, four microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDIs), three credit institutions and more than 300 non-deposit-taking ...

Government has warned the public against borrowing money from unlicensed microfinance firms to avoid making losses. The warning was made by the executive director of Uganda Microfinance Regulatory ...

Speaking at Hotel Africana on December 5, 2025, during the 3rd Annual Microfinance and SACCOS Governance Forum, Hofokam Ltd managing director Charles Isingoma said savings and credit co-operatives (SA ...

Once celebrated for entertaining crowds at local functions, a group of singers in Katobo, Rukungiri District, has rewritten its story--swapping microphones for farm tools and music stages for pig ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Microfinance is an important component of the fight against poverty. We ask whether access to microfinance loans by the poor relates to their ...