Friday, 22.2. - Speeding up

I meet with Geoffrey in the morning to discuss the potential agenda on the Financial Chain business lecture. So far, Factoring has not been part of the teaching agenda, so I have to think about how I can make the best use of the 3 hours that are reserved for the session. Until noon, the agenda more or less stands and I will use the remaining time until Monday to think it over and do some finetuning.

For lunch, we meet Moureen who kindly arranged a meeting at KCB with Marco, the branch manager. He facilitated a 2-month internship for Moureen during her studies. We have a very fruitful discussion on the existing cooperation between KCB and the MMU and also get some insight in the general market environment for banks in Uganda as well as the core business of the Fort Portal branch. Marco kindly refers me to the HR department of KCB in Kampala, so I already have my first contact for the banking cooperation project.

Shortly afterwards, we meet Margret and join her for a visit to Centenary Bank, where she worked as an intern. We meet with Gideon, the Fort Portal branch supervisor. Also here I can obtain an HR contact in the Kampala headoffice I can touchbase with in order to push forward the banking cooperation project.

Over the next days, I will put together an overview of the contacts I have gathered so far and write an action plan on how we want to onboard as many banks as possible for the kick-off event that is scheduled for the second week of March.

Overall, it was a very productive day with some positive surprises and constructive meetings with very helpful and friendly local folks. Apart from our business conducted today, we look forward to making a one-day hiking trip with Michel from the Dutchess Restaurant tomorrow.