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Nigerian Banks Fail to Deliver on Their Threat to Shake Up Ugandan MarketSeventeen years after promising to “crash queues” and shake up Uganda’s banking sector, Nigerian banks are instead watching from the sidelines. United Bank for Africa and GTBank have struggled with weak lending, shrinking profits, and minimal market share—surviving more on government securities than customers. Meanwhile, local, Kenyan, and South African banks are racing ahead with deposits, credit, and relevance.
by CEO East Africa MagazineMay 18, 2025May 18, 2025
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Kenneth Kisambira, CEO of UBA Uganda (left), and Ms. Ali Fatima, Acting Managing Director of GTBank Uganda (right), lead the Ugandan subsidiaries of Nigeria’s banking giants—two institutions still striving to convert Pan-African ambition into sustained local impact amidst fierce competition from regional and local peers.
In a 2007 pre-opening interview with the CEO East Africa Magazine, Manz Denga, the then United Bank for Africa (UBA) Managing Director, spoke strongly about his bank’s ambitions in Uganda.“Ugandan…
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