Uganda’s National Social Security Fund has delivered its biggest return in four decades, but the record payout also highlights a much larger question: how many Ugandans are saving consistently enough to benefit from long-term investment? For the financial year ended…
A UGX3 billion partnership between Stanbic and France is backing entrepreneurs turning environmental challenges into businesses, with 106 enterprises completing the first year of an accelerator programme focused on investment readiness, jobs and sustainable growth. Uganda’s transition towards a greener…
Uganda’s US$500 billion economic ambition comes with a financial requirement that is almost as striking as the target itself, private-sector credit will have to rise from roughly Shs30 trillion today to more than Shs490 trillion by 2040. That means the…
The global competition for investment is changing. Capital is available, but it is becoming more selective about where it goes, what it builds and the returns it can generate. For developing economies, this means the competition is no longer simply…
By Publicist East Africa When Euromoney named Stanbic Bank Uganda the country’s Best Investment Bank for 2026, it recognised more than another year of strong institutional performance. It acknowledged the growing role of investment banking in financing Uganda’s economic transformation.…
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’…
The inaugural Uganda Development Finance Summit (UDFS25) opened this week at the Speke Convention Centre in Kampala with a mix of celebration, critique, and bold ambition. President Yoweri Museveni, in his trademark bluntness, praised the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) for…