Uganda: Barclays Starts Mobile Banking

27 February 2008

Mbale — Barclays Bank will soon launch a mobile banking service, in which Ugandans in rural areas will be able to open up accounts without going to the bank premises.

Mr William Ssekabembe, the bank's regional manager for eastern, said the new service will see bank staff going over to meet rural people intending to open up accounts and not the other way round.

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