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Buladde is helping traders take steady steps towards financial independence

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 23 Right in the middle of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Justine Namubiru was minding her business in Kawanda when some gentleman approached her and her colleagues and asked them if they were willing to join Buganda Kingdom’s Buladde Financial Services. “We were told that Buladde would help us in saving and […]

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May 30, 2023
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PayLater enables users to acquire products or travel on credit

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 20 Gloria Okwakunda is a very happy and contented woman. She is happy because of her reliable companion. “My companion is PayLater. Ever since I joined this amazing service, my life has been smooth,” she says with a smile. PayLater is an online hire purchase platform where people acquire products or […]

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May 27, 2023
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EzeeMoney makes payments easy for the end-users

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 18 In Uganda, the word survival makes a lot of meaning because many people live on a hand-to-mouth income cycle. So, every working day matters. If you don’t work, you don’t eat! The same applies to utilities. It is very common to find households paying daily electricity bills or weekly pay-tv […]

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May 25, 2023
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My Doctor is using Telemedicine to provide equitable Healthcare to underserved communities

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 15 Antenatal care is one service pregnant women struggle to seek. Many expectant mothers actually wait to first get a pregnancy complication to go for antenatal monitoring. They just hate the inconvenience of visiting the hospital every now and then. But what if this service was digitized? When Divinah Twinomujuni was […]

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May 22, 2023
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Echolink’s SaccoMate Application is easing work for Islamic Banking institutions

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 12 The global migration from paper-work to digital systems over the past two decades has received both support and resistance almost in equal measure. The critics have fronted the jobs worry of replacing humans with machines in the employment world while the proponents cite efficiency, convenience, and cost-effectiveness. All said and […]

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May 19, 2023
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EzyAgric saves Farmers with Buy-Now Pay-Later digital loans

#40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 10 In many parts of rural Uganda, accessing a bank is almost impossible. Even when you chance on one, the red tape involved in accessing credit is unbelievable, especially in agricultural financing. So, farmers usually rely on SACCOs and money lenders to survive. Most of these however come with high interest […]

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May 17, 2023
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Hundreds of Employees benefit from Zofi Cash’s salary advances

Building and construction is a tricky business, mostly because contracts in this sector are usually post-paid. This means that one has to primarily foot the bill for construction materials and wages. At the end of the day, many construction companies incur high-interest loans that conversely affect their profits. James Andrew Mukuye was going through this […]

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May 15, 2023
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Traders rave in market access through Merchandise Uganda

Market access is one of the biggest challenges for businesses in Uganda, especially in the informal sector. Many highly depend on word-of-mouth references because they lack resources for proper marketing. Some fail to break even and close shop while others stagnate at a small-scale level. It is estimated that Uganda has more than 2.5 million […]

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May 14, 2023
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#LevelOneProject: 2021 #WomenInFinTech Hackathon concludes Day Two with Call for Value Addition

Kampala: Day Two of the #WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Hackathon was successfully concluded with discussions centred on how participants can improve their projects in order to serve their target audiences better. Day two mentor, Doreen Lukandwa, the Beyonic/MFS Africa vice president (global enterprises) and winner of the 2020 Women in FinTech Award urged participants to use latest […]

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October 12, 2021
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#LevelOneProject: Registration for second #WomenInFinTech Hackathon & Summit kicks off

Kampala: In line with its commitment to spearhead Digital Financial Services adoption and Financial Inclusion advocacy across Africa, HiPipo has today launched the 2021 #WomenInFinTech #LevelOneProject Hackathon and Summit, with the opening of registration to all eligible participants. The Women in FinTech Hackathon will convene developers – 75 per cent of them being women – […]

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September 23, 2021
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