Kenya
Kenya Plans Mandatory CSR Contributions to Fund Startups in Major Innovation Drive
Kenya is preparing a groundbreaking policy that will require large corporations to dedicate a portion of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) budgets to ...
Kenya
Kenya Moves Closer to Crypto Regulation as VASP Bill Advances in Parliament
Kenya is edging towards comprehensive cryptocurrency regulation after its National Assembly approved the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill at the committee stage ...
Kenya
Kenya: Pesalink partners with Cellulant to tap premium payments market
Pesalink, Kenya’s interbank money transfer platform, has entered into a strategic integration with pan-African fintech Cellulant through its digital payments platform, Tingg. The ...
Fintech
Kenya’s Mobile Money Penetration Hits 91%, Cementing Global Fintech Leadership
Kenya has reaffirmed its status as a global trailblazer in digital finance, with mobile money penetration reaching an unprecedented 91% by June 2025, ...
Kenya
Kenyan Remittance Startup Bonto Shuts Down Two Years After Launch
Nairobi-based remittance fintech Bonto Kenya has shut down operations just two years after launch and less than eight months after receiving regulatory approval ...
Kenya
Kenya: Pesalink–TendePay Alliance Targets Faster Payments for Kenyan SMEs
Kenya’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are set to benefit from faster, high-value transactions following a new partnership between Pesalink and Nairobi-based fintech ...
Kenya
Kenya: CBK Unveils Cybersecurity Operations Centre to Bolster Banking Sector Defences
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has launched the Banking Sector Cybersecurity Operations Centre (BS-SOC), a dedicated hub to strengthen cyber resilience across ...
Kenya
Kenya: Safaricom Upgrades M-PESA Capacity to 6,000 Transactions Per Second
Safaricom has completed a major upgrade of its M-PESA platform, boosting processing capacity to 6,000 transactions per second — the most significant enhancement ...
Kenya
Kenya’s Banking Fraud Crisis: CBK Flags Cyber-Attacks, But Insider Threats Loom Larger
When Sylvia Wanjiru received a million-shilling payment from a client, a call from a “bank representative” followed within minutes, offering to “confirm” the ...
Innovation
Kenya: Huawei Cloud Unveils Big Data and DevOps Solutions in Kenya to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Huawei Cloud has expanded its footprint in Kenya with the launch of its Big Data tools and the CodeArts DevOps platform, aimed at ...