BPR - Banque Populaire du Rwanda

The BPR journey started in 1975 in a village called Nkamba in Eastern province, a group of ordinary Rwandans had an extraordinary dream. They wanted access to finance to help them achieve better livelihoods. This is how the first Bank Populaire was born.

Subsequently, other community based savings and credit schemes were born in other areas of Rwanda becoming autonomous with "Banques Populaires".

The growth of these savings and credit schemes and their significance in financial inclusion led to the formation of an umbrella institution in 1986 under the name "Union des Banques Populaires du Rwanda (UBPR).