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Innocent Kawooya, NIM; Impactrepreneur: The Unstoppable Rise of Uganda’s Youngest National Independence Medallist

Innocent Kawooya, who was visibly shocked and young when President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni personally bestowed the Diamond Jubilee National Independence Medal upon him a year ago, is still very much in the spotlight, and the noise level has escalated. This wasn’t just a one-off; what Uganda witnessed that day was the validation of a man […]

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FinTech Stakeholders optimistic of the future, pushing for interoperable solutions after 2020 spotlight

The COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented effects notwithstanding, Financial Technology stakeholders have had a lot of positives in 2020. These included world leaders earnestly pleading with their populations to adopt digital financial services (DFS) and other electronic services as means of curbing the further spread of the dreaded novel corona virus. In Uganda, the uptake […]

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Women in FinTech Hackathon underway

The first of its kind Women in FinTech Hackathon is currently underway in Kampala with 15 women led and dominated teams taking part. The participants are conceptualizing and developing different financial inclusion products with special focus on women in areas such as payments, lending, saving, e-commerce, e-education and e-agriculture among others. As part of the […]

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Fintech Launches Smart Point of Sale Terminals In Uganda

Fintech, a leading enterprise information technology solutions and services provider, today launched a new generation of smart point of sale (POS) devices that will increase efficiency in payments for retail customers. The POS devices will allows real time cash and cashless transactions across multiple platforms. Fintech who are the sole distributors of the new POS […]