Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered is a multinational bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with a history dating back to 1853. The bank provides a comprehensive range of banking products and services across various regions, including Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Its operations are segmented into Corporate & Institutional Banking, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, and Private Banking. Standard Chartered offers services such as current and savings accounts, loans, mortgages, credit cards, and wealth management solutions, including investment and portfolio management. Additionally, the bank provides corporate finance services encompassing structured and project financing, strategic advisory, and trade finance, as well as transaction banking services like cash management and securities services. With a workforce of over 86,000 employees and approximately 1,026 branches, Standard Chartered aims to support individuals, businesses, and governments in achieving their financial goals.

Dalu Ajene

CEO

Amit Puri

Managing Director and Global Head, Environmental and Social Risk Management

Bill Winters

Group CEO and Board Member

Past deals in Uganda

Azuri Technologies

Debt Financing in 2017
Azuri Technologies Ltd. develops, manufactures, and installs solar power products for off-grid emerging markets in Africa and the United Kingdom. The company offers AzuriTV, a solar-powered television; Indigo, a pay-as-you-go system that enables solar electricity to be delivered as a service using scratch cards for payment; Azuri Quad, a solar home system that provides household lighting, including LED lights, rechargeable radio and torch, and mobile phone charging; and PayGo, a solar home system that delivers clean energy to rural households living without electricity. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom with distribution networks in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Zambia, and South Africa.

SMILE Telecoms Holdings

Debt Financing in 2015
Smile Telecoms Holdings Limited provides broadband Internet access and communication services throughout Africa, specifically targeting markets in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Established in 2007 and headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, the company offers mobile broadband Internet, as well as voice and messaging services via its long-term evolution broadband network. Additionally, it supplies WiFi routers, MiFi routers for multiple users, and USB dongles for individual users. The company serves a diverse customer base, including small and medium-sized enterprises, households, and individual users, while also focusing on enhancing Internet penetration in regions with low connectivity. With a potential customer base exceeding 300 million, Smile Telecoms is positioned to expand access to reliable mobile connections, particularly as smartphone usage continues to grow in its operational areas.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Debt Financing in 2015
Liquid Telecom is an independent data, voice, and IP provider that commits to build a digital future. Liquid Telecom has built Africa’s largest single fibre network, currently stretching over 18,000km across Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho and South Africa. The award-winning Pan-African fibre network covers Africa’s fastest growing economies, where no fixed network has existed before.
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