Zukuka Finance is using Islamic Banking principles to save borrowers. #40Days40FinTechs Season 4 Day 5
A quick scan through the daily newspapers will show you how many people are losing their businesses to financial services…
A quick scan through the daily newspapers will show you how many people are losing their businesses to financial services…
One of the biggest business challenges is accountability. For instance, it is almost impossible for any organization to determine how…
Sometime in 2016, Jean Anthony Onyait was on a study trip to Tirinyi where he met a special woman that…
After a long day’s work recently, Fetaru Charity Flavia was late for a surprise birthday party for her friend. To…
On top of her job as a secretary at Buddo SS, Mary Caroline Nambogga is charged with the custodianship of…
Kampala, Uganda. We are happy to announce that registration for the fourth edition of the HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs…
Written by Innocent Kawooya In their paper titled “Advances in Real Time: Challenges and Solutions in Interoperable Payment Systems,” Kosta…
We are excited to share with you the Women In FinTech Magazine—January 2023 edition. A magazine that is solely dedicated…
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed Africa’s financial infrastructure. Initial focus has been on giving rich and middle-income users…
MTN Uganda and MTN MoMo were the biggest winners at the 2022 Digital Impact Awards Africa, with the two sister…
Following the conclusion of the entries’ submission and verification process, HiPipo is pleased to unveil the nominees of the 2022…
Our Reporter. After an intense and knowledge-packed week, the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon, culminated in to the Women in…
Our Reporter. After over a week of ideation, designing, developing, and coding, the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon reached its…
Our Reporter. Over the years, the financial technology industry has been male-dominated. However, a lot of effort has in the…
Our Reporter. Day three of the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon was action-packed, with participants working on their products’ MVP…
Our Reporter. Day Two of the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon concluded with Teams completing their Solution and Prototype designs.…
Our Reporter. With the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon underway, participants are thrilled and full of hope that they will…
Kampala, Uganda. Following the completion of both entry submission and review process, we are excited to unveil the 20 teams…
Kampala, Uganda: When you empower one woman, you have in fact supported an entire family. This is no longer an…
Hon. Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo, the state minister for ICT has challenged the youth to use technology to find solutions to…
Our Reporter. With the advancement in technology, there is always a need to upgrade from one smartphone to another, from…
Our Reporter. In the African culture, whenever a young man is going to marry his bride, it is taken as…
Our Reporter. When a peacock is lying down, one can hardly appreciate its beauty. But when it stands and its…
Our Reporter. One of the biggest challenges faced by start-up businesses is poor record keeping, which results in the inability…
Our reporter. Nomanini is a South Africa-founded payments platform that connects financial service providers and fast-moving consumer goods companies to…
Our Reporter. East Africa has one of the fastest-growing populations, predominated by women and youth. The same region has a…
Our Reporter. It is now 22 years since one of East Africa’s oldest financial technology companies, Craft Silicon launched operations. …
Our Reporters. At the start of July 2016, news broke that two Tech giants had come together and devised an…
Our Reporter. In 2001, two young African men from opposite ends of the continent sat across each other at a…
Our reporter. FinTech Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of FinTech Group is one of the oldest financial technology companies in Africa…
Our Reporter. At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Denis Orech and two friends from Lira University decided…
Our Reporter. The outbreak of Covid-19 has forced many businesses to migrate from the manual way of doing things…
Our Reporter. Uganda has a huge but largely underdeveloped fashion industry. According to a November 2020 article by The East…
Our Reporter. Enrolling members into savings, and investment clubs is a key stage in operationalizing such organizations. But when this…
Our Reporter. The world is slowly migrating into a cash-lite and eventually a cashless global economy where all transactions are…
Our Reporter. One of the biggest bottlenecks of transferring funds from one country to another is the cost involved,…
Our Reporter. FutureLink Technologies is a community-driven marketplace for affordable financial services. It is licensed by the Bank of Uganda…
Our Reporter. Agriculture remains Uganda’s top employer, with more than 60 percent of the population involved in agricultural activities. Despite…
Our Reporter. True African is with no doubt among the legends of digital financial services in Uganda. They were among…
Our Reporter. Linmart is an online marketplace that links manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers and shoppers to one platform called a…
Our Reporter. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 was projected to be a short-term disruption but for…
Our Reporter. One of the main reasons for the early collapse of villages Saccos and Investment groups is poor book…
Our Reporter. When Uganda, just like most parts of the world was put into a total lockdown following the outbreak…
Our Reporter. The word ‘SafeBoda’ is now a household name for the majority of Ugandans who especially use Boda Bodas…
Our Reporter. In 2021, Flutterwave received worldwide recognition for becoming an African FinTech Unicorn. By definition, a unicorn company is…
Our Reporter. Many Ugandan traders in the informal sector have been shut out of digital and financial inclusion drives because…
Our Reporter. Renowned marketing and business expert, Steven Jeffes once said that “innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the…
Our Reporter. If you are a frequent user of public transport in Africa, then you know the hustle and bustle…
HiPipo, organisers of the 40Days40FinTechs initiative have welcomed the new Software Development Kits (SDKs) by the Global System for Mobile…
Our Reporter. When Ephrance Eunice Namugenyi’s father started a paver and block-making business, he contacted his daughter to use her…