Housing Finance Bank


Housing Finance Bank is a commercial bank in Uganda. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by Bank of Uganda, the national banking regulator.

Overview

HFB is a full service retail bank that is primarily involved in mortgage banking. Founded in 1967 as a housing finance company, HFB became a fully licensed commercial bank in January 2008, having acquired a commercial banking license from the Bank of Uganda. The bank is the leading mortgage lender in the country, with approximately 60 percent of all Ugandan mortgage accounts. As of December 2019, HFB had an asset base valued at USh912.48 billion , with shareholders' equity of USh211.92 billion.
In August 2017, the two largest shareholders in the bank, the Uganda government and NSSF Uganda, each contributed $8.2 million in fresh capital, to boost the bank's ability to lend to more mortgage borrowers and improve the lender's liquidity.

Ownership

HFB is owned by the Uganda National Social Security Fund. The government of Uganda, through the Uganda Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, owns 49.18 percent. The remaining 0.82 percent is owned by the National Housing and Construction Company, a parastatal company jointly owned by the government of Uganda and the government of Libya.
HFB had planned to list its shares on the Uganda Securities Exchange in 2012, however, those plans were postponed.

Branch network

HFB maintains its corporate headquarters and main branch at its newly constructed headquarters building on Wampewo Avenue, on Kololo Hill. HFB's former main branch is located on Kampala Road.
Another branch within the Kampala central business district is located in Nakasero, across Nakasero Road from the Nigerian High Commission. There are two other branches in Kampala, one each in the suburbs of Namuwongo and Ntinda.
In February 2009, HFB opened a branch in Mbarara in western Uganda. In March 2009, HFB opened a branch in an area of Kampala known as Kikuubo. In June 2009, HFB opened a branch in Mbale, promising at the opening ceremony to launch Internet banking and rural mobile banking later in 2009. In July 2009, HFB opened a branch in Arua, its eighth in the country.
, HFB maintained branches at the following locations:
  1. Pearl Lounge Executive Banking Branch - 4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo, Kampala
  2. Arua Branch - OB Plaza, 9-11 Adumi Road, Arua
  3. Fort Portal Branch - 4 Kyebambe Road, Fort Portal
  4. Garden City Branch - Garden City Mall, 64-68, Yusuf Lule Road, Kampala
  5. Gulu Branch - 26 Labwor Road, Gulu
  6. Jinja Branch - Beamteks Plaza, 68 Main Street, Jinja
  7. Kampala Road Branch - 25 Kampala Road, Kampala
  8. Kikuubo Branch - 15 Nakivubo Road, Kampala
  9. Kololo Branch - Investment House, 4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo Main Branch
  10. Lira Branch - 4 Bazaar Road, Lira
  11. Mbale Branch - Bugisu Cooperative Union House, 2 Court Road, Mbale
  12. Mbarara Branch - Classic Hotel Building, 57 High Street, Mbarara
  13. Mukono Branch - Mukono
  14. Najjanankumbi Branch - Pelican House, 1032 Entebbe Road, Najjanankumbi
  15. Nakasero Branch - 34A Nakasero Road, Nakasero, Kampala
  16. Namuwongo Branch -38 Kisugu Road, Namuwongo, Kampala
  17. Ndeeba Branch - 94-96 Masaka Road, Ndeeba, Kampala
  18. Ntinda Branch - 1 Kimera Road, Ntinda
  19. Ovino Branch - Ovino Market Mall, 22, Kibuga Road, Kisenyi, Kampala
  20. Tororo Branch - 11 Mbale Road, Tororo

    Directors

Housing Finance Bank is governed by a twelve-person board of directors of whom two are executive directors and ten are non-executive. The chairman of the board is David Opiokello, one of the non-executive directors.

Executive management

was the founding managing director of HFB. In April 2013, Mathias Katamba became managing director, succeeding the retiring Okwir. In October 2018, Katamba left and Michael Mugabi was named CEO in an acting capacity. There are eleven other senior managers with whom the managing director supervises the daily activities of the bank.