Across Uganda, a quiet shift is redefining the nature of work. Increasingly, people are earning livelihoods as freelancers, consultants, digital traders, content creators, software developers and independent service providers. Many operate without registered companies, formal payrolls or conventional business structures,…
Uganda has set itself one of the most ambitious economic targets anywhere on the African continent: expanding the economy from approximately US$50 billion today to US$500 billion by 2040. If realised, the target would fundamentally alter the country’s economic position…
By Publicist East Africa For decades, Uganda’s relationship with investing has largely been transactional. Companies have spoken through annual reports, financial statements and statutory annual general meetings, while investors have often been left to interpret the numbers with little opportunity…
MTN Uganda Chairman and prominent businessman Dr Charles Mbire is set to headline the inaugural SBG Securities Investor Day on Friday, June 26, 2026, as part of an initiative to drive local participation in Uganda’s financial markets. The event will…
Uganda’s banks are posting record profits, but the productive economy is still struggling to access credit. The gap is not a shortage of money. It is a system that converts liquidity into safe returns faster than it converts enterprise into…
Across Africa’s rapidly urbanizing economies, housing remains one of the most persistent development challenges. Cities are expanding at a pace that continues to outstrip infrastructure and housing delivery. In this environment, Shelter Afrique Development Bank’s 2025 financial performance presents a…
At 45 years old, institutions are often expected to settle into maturity, to refine what they already are, not rethink what they could become. Yet Shelter Afrique Development Bank is doing the opposite. It is choosing reinvention. In Rabat, Morocco,…
In Owino Market in Kampala, a trader named Tendo does not visit a bank. He has never filled in a loan application form. He does not own land to offer as collateral. But last Tuesday, his phone buzzed with an…
NCBA Bank Uganda has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Uganda’s financial markets, positioning the sector as a critical enabler of the country’s economic transformation ambitions. The bank’s Global Markets Division participated in the ACI Financial Markets Authority (FMA) Uganda Dealers’…
For years, Uganda’s insurance sector was defined by one word: fragmentation. Dozens of insurers competed for relatively small market share in an industry where penetration remained among the lowest in Africa. Competition was abundant; scale was not. Many firms struggled…
In 2026, Uganda found itself celebrating two major export milestones, the country surpassed Ethiopia in monthly coffee export volumes, exporting 47,606 tonnes compared to Ethiopia’s 43,481 tonnes and reinforcing its growing position in global coffee markets. Around the same period,…
When Barclays exited Africa and became Absa, many dismissed it as a corporate restructuring exercise. When Citigroup began retreating from consumer banking operations across multiple markets, it was viewed as part of a broader global strategy. Now Standard Chartered has…
On a mining site in Buhweju, western Uganda, a small-scale miner sifts through soil with basic tools, hoping that the next pan will yield enough gold to cover rising food prices, school fees, and transport costs. The work is steady…
As Africa’s economies navigate intensifying global uncertainty, accelerating digital disruption, climate-linked financial pressures, and shifting geopolitical trade dynamics, central banks across East Africa are quietly moving toward deeper coordination. While still informal and evolving, this trajectory signals the early formation…
The transition in leadership at the Uganda Bankers Association comes at a pivotal moment for Uganda’s financial sector, defined by accelerating digital disruption, tightening macroeconomic conditions, rising credit risks, expanding regional integration, and the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as…