Stanbic appoints new head for corporate banking

February 15, 2019 in Business, Companies, Finance, Financial Services by Editor

stanbic Emma Mugisha

Stanbic Bank Uganda (SBU), the top provider for credit to individuals and businesses in Uganda, has appointed Emma Mugisha (pictured) as the new Head of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).

Her role is to oversee the bank’s CIB clientele including government, large corporate and financial institutions.

SBU gave credit of UGX 157 billion (just over $42 million) out of the total UGX 168 billion lent out by all banks in Uganda during 2017.

Mugisha is responsible for their value-added investment banking and cash management products while aligning their strategies with a modified customer-based model in meeting their investment and risk coverage needs.

Emma previously served in the capacity of Head of Transactional Products and Services for five years in Stanbic Uganda.

She is a treasury and business banking guru with over 20 years of experience in the banking sector having started off in micro-finance with Faulu Uganda (now Opportunity Bank).

She has worked as a dealer in the global markets departments of Citi Bank and Barclays Uganda as well as the business banking department of Barclays Kenya.

Mugisha holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.