For those that have attended events in Uganda, you are familiar with the hustle and bustle involved in buying entry tickets. This includes long queues, higher prices than originally advertised and fraudsters selling fake tickets among other issues.But all this will soon be history; if event organizers and revelers can incorporate technology in the ticketing […]
Majority of Ugandans are just one medical emergency and hospital admission away from financial ruin and untold disaster. This is because accessing quality healthcare is very expensive and a preserve of a few.Even though the government, with support from development partners, has invested massively in healthcare, the cost of medication remains very high for the […]
Have you ever been with an account that has money but are unable to access it? Put differently, has someone ever called you with an emergency that needs money? You may even have the money but are unable to send it to this person because of the absence of a transfer system? A few years […]
Regardless of how persuasive loan advertisements are, getting credit in Uganda is one complicated hustle; more so for those in the informal sector – who happen to be the huge majority. When one visits a formal financial institution, the paperwork, waiting time and costs involved to process a loan become a huge turn-off. This forces […]
The word Kawu must be familiar to whoever attended boarding schools in Uganda. Kawu is that period in a boarding school when a student’s pocket money and grab – read packed eats and drinks – are over and the only thing left to feed on are the meals served by the school kitchen. These meals […]
No serious storyteller can narrate Uganda’s post-independence story without giving prominence to the famous Luweero triangle. It is that pivotal but that is a story for another day. For decades, farmers in Uganda have earned very little, sometimes nothing from their produce and farmland due to issues such as failure to source the right inputs, […]
We are proud to say that the second HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs that ran in the months of July and August, 2021 set the bar very high. Even though it started soon after the partial lifting of the 2021 lockdown, it was tremendously successful. #40Days40FinTechs has quickly grown into one of the world’s premier […]
The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has left majority Ugandan businesses and even individuals in desperate need of a financial bailout. Sadly, many of them could hardly access credit due to lack of security and other necessary requirements. However, there has been a reprieve for more than nine million Ugandans who have used their […]
The high operating costs shouldered by financial services providers have always been blamed for the high interest rates that businesses and people who want to borrow have to bear. This has played a great deal in keeping many potential borrowers away, yet they would need the credit to advance themselves financially. Even Saccos and Microfinance […]
The low transaction costs, innovative products and a wide network coverage that makes its products and services easily accessible to everyone, irrespective of location, has made Airtel Mobile Commerce Uganda Limited “a bank” for people who were previously unbanked. This is according to the Airtel Uganda Chief Commercial Officer, Amit Kapur. Amit Kapur says that […]
