Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered Bank is a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with a history dating back to 1853. It operates through various segments, including Corporate & Institutional Banking, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, and Private Banking. The bank offers a comprehensive array of financial products and services, such as current and savings accounts, loans, mortgages, credit cards, and wealth management solutions. Its corporate finance division provides structured financing, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and trade finance services. Additionally, Standard Chartered delivers transaction banking services, including cash management and electronic banking solutions. With a strong presence across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East, the bank serves a diverse clientele, including individuals, small businesses, corporations, and governments, through its extensive network of branches. Standard Chartered aims to foster economic growth and prosperity in the regions it operates, emphasizing its commitment to being "Here for good."
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 is a broadband provider company. Founded in 2007, Smile Telecoms says it has more than 300 million potential customers in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and the DR Congo. Internet penetration in all four of Smile’s markets is still low so increasing the availability of speedy mobile connections can help more people go online, especially when combined with increased smartphone ownership.
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.