Government is taking steps in ministries and departments intended to reduce and solve the problem of increasing domestic arrears, the Minister of State for Finance David Bahati has said. One of the steps, the minister said was instituting prepaid systems for utilities. “The biggest part of domestic arrears is on …
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JOBS: UNDP Finance Assistant, Windhoek, Namibia Organization: UNDP – United Nations Development Programme Country: Namibia City: Windhoek APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »ANALYSIS: IMF boss ensures 2017 budget will be ‘hard’
Lagarde (right) praised Museveni’s (left) scaled-up infrastructure investments.When President Yoweri Museveni, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Matia Kasaija, Governor of Bank of Uganda Tumusiime-Mutebile and other senior officials stepped into the meeting with visiting IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde this last week, they had under their belt a …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Manchester United’s relative failure on the pitch has not been reflected off it as for the first time in over a decade they top Deloitte’s Football Money League for revenue in the 2015/16 season. United — who were last on top in the 2003/04 …
Read More »Royal Bank of Scotland fails BoE stress test
London, United Kingdom | AFP | The Royal Bank of Scotland is the worst prepared among Britain’s lenders for another financial crisis, the Bank of England said Wednesday, forcing the state-rescued lender into a new capital-raising plan. The BoE, revealing its latest stress tests on Britain’s top seven banks, added …
Read More »FSD: Beyond financial inclusion to usage
INTERVIEW: Christopher Musoke is the CEO of Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSD). He spoke to the Independent’s Agnes E Nantaba about progress in the financial inclusion in Uganda. What are the key elements in your management style as a manager? My concern is to ensure that as a team we …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Lessons from Crane bank woes
With the Crane Bank being placed under Central Bank management and several other commercial banks being asked to recapitalise, the banking sector in Uganda seems to be under a lot of stress lately. What seems to have brought down Crane Bank does not seem to be a Crane Bank problem …
Read More »Rethinking the banking industry
THE LAST WORD: By Andrew M. Mwenda Lesson for Central Bank from the experience of the takeover of Crane Bank This week, the government injected Shs 200 billion into Crane Bank to bolster its liquidity position. This is only 40% of the Shs 500 billion needed to bring the bank …
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Uganda: Finance Intern Kampala, Uganda Danish Refugee Council Closing Date : 2016-10-28 Duty Station : Kampala, Uganda Organization: Danish Refugee Council Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent humanitarian organisation working to provide durable solutions and promoting human security. Application : Apply for the job Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »Bank of Uganda takes over management of Crane Bank
The Bank of Uganda has with effect from today taken over management of Crane Bank Limited. According to a statement, the action has been taken upon the determination by the Bank of Uganda that Crane Bank Limited is significantly under-capitalised. BOU has appointed a statutory manager, Edward Katimbo Mugwanya, to …
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