Yetu Microfinance

YETU Microfinance Bank PLC is a bank dedicated to provide financial services to the unbanked and under banked people of Tanzania. The bank offers credit products, such as solidarity group loans for clients who are organized into groups whose members serve as informal bank and cross guarantee each other's loans; Mavuno loan products to afford members of solidarity group loan who have reached a loan ceiling of TZS 3 million and would like to borrower on individual capacity; small and medium enterprises loan products, including export and import, car, business/shop improvement, business capital, and processing and manufacturing loans; SRI agricultural loans; mixed farming loans to smallholder farmers for financing various crops; and instant loans, as well as education loans. Its deposit products comprise compulsory (collateral) savings; and voluntary deposits.

Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC is a public limited company that was incorporated under the Companies Act 2002 on December 23, 2013 so as to take over the business of Youth Self Employment Foundation (YOSEFO). YOSEFO was a credit only Microfinance institution for 14 years before being transformed into a microfinance bank. On 23 June 2015 Yetu Microfinance launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) through the Enterprise Growth Window (EGM) and was able to raise TZS 3.1 billion. On 10 March 2016 Yetu Microfinance PLC became the first and only microfinance listed at the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange PLC. The company managed to secure a banking licence on 20 February 2017 from Bank of Tanzania after meeting licensing conditions including the minimum capital requirement of TZS 5 billion. The as of 2018, the current paid up capital of the bank is TZS 6.05 billion.

Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC's mission is to help in improving access to finance, provide exceptional value to clients and expand economic opportunities for people of Tanzania.The firms also provides exciting and challenging career opportunities to its employees and create and enhance value to its share holders. The Bank's objective is to build a customer-centric new-generation bank for the lower-end market of the banking sector and to achieve healthy growth in profitability, consistent with the bank's risk appetite. The bank is committed to maintain the highest level of ethical standards, professional integrity, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. The bank's business philosophy is based on six core values; Innovation, equal opportunity, integrity, equitable growth and ethics.

The Board of Directors of the company comprises six individuals. The Chairman is one of the five non-Executive Directors. The current Chairman is Ernest Ndimbo and the current Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), is Altemius Millinga.[2]

Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC has its headquarters in Dar es Salaam. As of 2019, the bank's distribution network was three branches (Mzizima and Mbagala in Dar es Salaam and Mngeta in Morogoro region) and 16 Financial Service Centers. All branches and financial service centers are linked on an online real-time basis system. Customers across Tanzania are also served through multiple delivery channels such as mobile banking, POS and ATM Cards. All the branches and financial service centres are fitted with biometric teller system, a technology friendly to the low-end market of the financial sector. The bank is also a member of Umoja Switch hence its customers can access over 300 ATMs country wide. As of January 2019, Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC maintains a network of branches and financial service centres (FSC) at the following locations:[4]

1. Head Office - Dar es Salaam
2. Mbagala Branch - Temeke District, Dar es Salaam
3. Mzizima Branch - Ilala District, Dar es Salaam
4. Mngeta Branch - Kilombero District, Morogoro.
5. Zanzibar FSC - Zanzibar
6. Kilwa FSC - Kilwa.
7. Lindi FSC - Lindi
8. Lumo FSC - Temeke District, Dar es Salaam
9. Kigamboni FSC - Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam
10. Kibaha FSC - Kibaha District, Pwani
11. Ifakara FSC - Kilombero District, Morogoro
12. Malinyi FSC - Malinyi District, Morogoro
13. Masasi FSC - Masasi District, Mtwara
14. Ruaha FSC - Kilombero District, Morogoro
15. Amani FSC - Tanga

• Microfinance in Tanzania
• Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange

• Website of Yetu Microfinance PLC