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Kenya: CBK Brings Back Charges On Transfers Between Banks And Mobile-Money Accounts
The charges are set to be restored from January 1, 2023 and follows discussions and lobbying between the CBK, banks and payment service ...
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Kenya: CBK reinstates bank M-Pesa fees in a big win for lenders
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has announced the reinstatement of charges on transfers of money between bank accounts and mobile money wallets ...
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Kenya: Equity’s takeover of Spire the best way out, says CBK
Equity Bank plan to buy struggling Spire Bank is the best deal available in the market, the Central Bank of Kenya told Parliament. ...
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kenya: Collapsed US crypto firm FTX put billions in 3 Kenyan firms
Crypto exchange FTX and its sister company Alameda Research, which have filed for bankruptcy in a United States court, invested billions in at ...
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Kenya: Dollar crisis earns Kenya banks Sh52bn amid consumer woes
Commercial banks’ earnings from foreign exchange trading for nine months through September nearly doubled on higher demand for the dollar amid widening margins. ...
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Kenya: Africa’s Leading Data Analytics Company, Periculum Launches Utambuzi in Kenya
Utambuzi has launched in Kenya. Utambuzi, which means ‘insights’ or ‘diagnosis’ in Swahili, is a personal finance management product that leverages machine learning ...
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Kenya: How Google Play changes will affect digital lenders
Digital lenders in Kenya will have to file a self-declaration form and license from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) with the tech ...
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Kenya: CBK eyes World Bank loans to boost forex reserves
Kenya is eyeing loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group and rich countries to lift its foreign-exchange reserves that ...
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Kenya: A third of borrowers stay on CRBs default blacklist
A third of Kenyan loan accounts are listed as defaulted with the country’s credit reference bureaus (CRBs) in an economy where Covid-induced job ...
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Kenya: Equity Bank set to raise interest rates for riskier borrowers from January
Equity Group plans to fully start pricing loans based on the risk profile of borrowers from January, citing recovery from pandemic shocks which ...