as evidenced by the oversubscription of the trapezia funds in the united kingdom there is a business opportunity and scope for equity funders to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs see case study viii they are also likely to have less time to spend on financial transacting due to the time demands of family and carer responsibilities institutions such as dfcu group in uganda have recognised this access challenge and have positioned womenfriendly branches in locations close to where there are clusters of women entrepreneurs and aligned branch operating times to correspond with the requirements of this group of customers significant numbers of women are using internet banking per cent in the uk and per cent in malta for example eurostat