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Kenya: Kenya’s Cellulant targets SMEs to accelerate growth
Pan African digital payments company Cellulant has announced plans to shift its focus to small and medium enterprises. The company aims to increase ...
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Kenya: Shift to Digital Payment Systems Takes Shape in Kenya
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has developed the National Payment Strategy (NPS) 2022-2025 to formulate and implement policies that best promote the ...
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Kenya: CBK seeks digital and mobile payment platforms fees cut
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has asked digital payment service providers including mobile money firms to cut their prices, arguing that they ...
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Kenya: GE & Afya Rekod simplify access to medical records to enhance patient experience in Africa
The partnership with GE will allow for a seamless flow of data from the equipment directly to the app and into patients’ hands ...
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Kenya: Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa are the top African markets for remittance inflows in Kenya
However, compared to the same period last year, diaspora remittances rose 21.7 per cent, according to the latest data from the Central Bank ...
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Kenya: Standard Africa Receives Approval to Acquire Bigger Stake in Stanbic Bank
Standard Africa Holdings Limited (SAHL) has received regulatory approval from Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to acquire a bigger stake in Stanbic holdings. ...
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Kenya: Digital shilling risks harming price stability goal, says CBK
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has raised concerns that running a digital currency will interfere with its core mandates including stabilising prices, ...
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Kenya: Kenya Serviced Foreign Loans with $1.2bn in 2021
Kenyan treasury on Monday reported that the country paid 137 billion shillings or about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 to service its ...
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Kenya: MarketForce raises $40M Series A to Scale Up the Super App for Africa’s Informal Merchants
In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 90% of household retail transactions are in cash, and delivered through a network of about 100 million MSMEs Today, ...
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Kenya: Family Bank Named Kenya’s Best Bank in Customer Responsiveness
Family Bank has been voted best bank in customer responsiveness and digital banking experience in a survey conducted by the Kenya Bankers Association. ...