Kenya
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. ...
Kenya
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 ...
Kenya
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 ...
Kenya
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 ...
Kenya
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 ...
Kenya
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 ...
Kenya
Kenya: CBK raises cost of loans to rein in inflation
The Central Bank of Kenya has signalled lenders to raise borrowing costs in a bid to rein in expectations of runaway inflation amid ...
Kenya
Kenya: Treasury overdraft in CBK hits Sh67.33bn as cash crunch bites
The Treasury has increased the use of emergency loan facilities at the central bank to fund critical government expenditures, pointing to biting cash ...
Innovation
Kenya: Copia Global Announces Partnership with Cellulant to Enable Payments for its Diaspora and Urban Customers
This partnership enables Copia’s diaspora and urban customers to conveniently initiate transactions and purchases for their loved ones in rural areas in Kenya ...
Kenya
Kenya: NSSF names acting boss as Omerikwa exits after 7 years
The State-controlled National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has appointed an acting managing trustee to replace Anthony Omerikwa who left the position Monday after ...