Micro Finance Tanzania

Deposit-taking microfinance institutions provide basic financial services to individuals and small businesses. They can accept deposits from customers and provide loans. This makes them different from microfinance providers that do not take deposits. They often focus on people and small businesses that may need simpler or smaller-scale services.

A deposit-taking microfinance institution is not the same as a commercial bank. Both can accept deposits, but they belong to different types of licensed financial institution. Commercial banks usually provide a wider range of banking services. The Bank of Tanzania licenses and supervises deposit-taking microfinance institutions and commercial banks. It also publishes the official register used to check the institutions listed in this directory.

The current register contains 228 licensed institutions of all kinds in Tanzania. Of these, 44 are commercial banks. This directory helps readers find practical details about microfinance institutions, including branch locations, phone numbers and licence information. It can also help people check whether an institution appears in the Bank of Tanzania register. Branch information is useful for people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, and in other parts of the country.