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UNCDF Bank DRC Limited has announced its full-year 2025 results, recording a profit before tax of CDF 280 billion — a 22% increase year-on-year driven by strong growth in digital banking and SME lending.
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Over 50,000 merchant outlets across DRC can now accept QR-based payments via the UNCDF Mobile App, in a major step toward a cashless economy.
The UNCDF Leaders Programme and Wings to Fly initiative together supported over 3,200 students with full secondary school scholarships in the 2025 academic year.
Customers can now open a fully functional UNCDF Bank DRC account through the mobile app without visiting a branch, using biometric verification and National ID data.
The partnership will channel long-term, low-interest credit to smallholder farmers and agri-businesses across all four regions of DRC through UNCDF's rural branch network.
The Banker Technology Awards recognised UNCDF Bank's investment in mobile and internet banking infrastructure that now serves over 3 million active digital customers across the region.
New branches in Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Kisangani, Bukavu and Goma bring UNCDF Bank's total DRC network to 77 branches, extending services to communities previously underserved by formal banking.
The 12-month programme, launched at Université de Kinshasa's Faculty of Economics, equips young Congolese with practical financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills.
UNCDF customers in DRC can now send and receive money across Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, DRC, and South Sudan in real time via the UNCDF Mobile App at preferential exchange rates.
The five-year unsecured bond, listed on the LUBUMBASHI Stock Exchange, was oversubscribed by 180% — demonstrating strong investor confidence in UNCDF Bank DRC's growth trajectory.
By signing the UN Global Compact, UNCDF Bank DRC commits to aligning its operations and strategy with universally accepted principles on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
The award recognises outstanding leadership in driving financial inclusion, digital transformation, and profitability growth across UNCDF Bank DRC's operations over the past three years.
The targeted SME lending programme, designed to address the gender financing gap, provided collateral-free loans averaging CDF 8 million to women entrepreneurs across 15 districts.
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