The Story Behind Our New Brand Campaign: Keep Growing!
For 35 years, Stanbic Bank has grown side-by-side with Uganda—backing families, entrepreneurs, farmers, industries, and national development priorities. That shared journey of resilience inspires our new brand campaign: Keep Growing. Running over 18 months, Keep Growing celebrates Uganda’s capacity to adapt, rebuild and rise—and renews our commitment to fuel progress for generations
Where Our Story Begins: Over 118 Years of History
Our roots go back to 1906, when the National Bank of India established operations in East Africa. Through mergers and transformations, the institution evolved into Grindlays Bank, a long-standing financial partner in Uganda’s early commercial development.
In 1991, Standard Bank Group entered Uganda by acquiring Grindlays’ regional assets—inheriting a legacy that gave depth to our long-held belief: Uganda is our home. We drive her growth.
The defining milestone came in 2002 with the privatisation of Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB). Standard Bank secured an 90% majority stake, transforming Stanbic almost overnight into Uganda’s largest commercial bank with a mandate to support nationwide financial inclusion and economic growth.
Today, as part of Africa’s largest banking group by assets, we remain guided by a purpose rooted in partnership, resilience and progress.
Mumba Kalifungwa
Chief Executive
Keep Growing honours the spirit of a nation that never stops striving. Our role is to ensure that as Uganda grows, so must we—especially in expanding access to financial opportunities for women, youth, and smallholder farmers. We are here not just to finance progress, but to enable positive impact for generations.
Sam Mwogeza
Executive Director & Head of Personal & Private Banking
The campaign resonates across the business. Keep Growing is a tribute to the quiet, everyday determination of Ugandan families working toward stability, dignity, and prosperity. We will continue innovating solutions that move households closer to their goals
Paul Muganwa
Executive Director & Head of Corporate & Investment Banking
Uganda’s economy is becoming more sophisticated and regionally integrated. From trade corridors to infrastructure and agribusiness financing, our role is to enable capital flows that advance national development
Tunde Thorpe
Head of Business and Commercial Banking
Commercial enterprise is the heartbeat of Uganda’s transformation.
Keep Growing is our commitment to provide capital, digital tools and market access so businesses can scale and create jobs.
Catherine Poran
Chief Executive, Stanbic Business Incubator
When entrepreneurs grow, communities grow.
By equipping SMEs with investment-ready skills, we unlock long-term value for Uganda’s economy
Grace Semakula
Chief Executive, SBG Securities Uganda
Ugandans are increasingly looking to build intergenerational wealth through capital markets.
Keep Growing reinforces our role in guiding investors towards diversified and secure portfolios.
Tich Makonese
Head of Insurance & Asset Management
Growth must be protected.
Our solutions ensure that livelihoods, businesses, health, and property are safeguarded so success is sustained across generations
Share your Growth Story
The Keep Growing campaign is a national storytelling platform to spotlight remarkable Ugandans whose progress reflects the nation’s spirit, as Diana Kahunde, Acting Head of Brand & Marketing explains. “Keep Growing is a story about all of us. It says: no matter your starting point, there is always a next chapter—and we will walk that journey with you.”
Keep Growing is an open invitation to Stanbic customers and employees to celebrate their progress, no matter how small, says Ken Agutamba, Country Manager, Corporate Communications.
“Have you been a Stanbic customer at any point over the last 35 years? Are you a woman, youth, or smallholder farmer working to elevate your life or business? Has this campaign inspired you to reflect on your growth journey? We would love to hear—and help you tell—your story. Connect with us through any of our digital platforms,” said Agutamba.