JUMO World – Voice of the customer | Sharon

Africa’s financial landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by digitisation and the widespread adoption of mobile banking. With over 1.75 billion registered mobile money accounts in 2023 (GSMA, 2024), Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest levels of global mobile money adoption. This shift has expanded financial access, created new economic opportunities, and...

Let me be clear about this policy – it completely misses the mark when it comes to understanding how Uganda’s credit market actually works and who really needs protection. Let’s talk about real people. Take a chapati seller on our streets. He borrows 100,000 UGX to buy ingredients for chapati,...

Public and private sector stakeholders as well as development partners, in Uganda’s financial services ecosystem, have welcomed GnuGrid CRB and Airtel Mobile Commerce’s Mobile Credit Score as a significant milestone in the journey towards unlocking the transformative power of digital financial services in extending especially credit to the largely unbanked...