Kenya
Kenya fintech startup Asilimia raises $2M pre-seed funding
Kenyan fintech Asilimia has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding to deliver new services and expand into new East African markets. The fintech startup raised ...
Kenya
Kenya: Cellulant to Power Payments for ImaliPay’s Drive for Gig Workers’ Financial Inclusion
The partnership will further drive financial inclusion by allowing ImaliPay users to access financial services quicker through Cellulant’s payment rails ImaliPay, the one-stop ...
Kenya
Kenya: CAK Flags 12 Banks With Hidden Mortgage Charges
Home loan borrowers could get better terms after the competition watchdog directed 12 banks to revise their terms and conditions, citing hidden charges ...
Kenya
Kenyan Banks Top 2021 Regional Rankings
Kenyan Banks have emerged top of their other East African counterparts in the 2021 ranking of the continent’s top 100 banks by tier ...
Kenya
Kenya: NBK Gets CMA Nod to De-List From NSE
The National Bank of Kenya has received approval from the Capital Markets Authority(CMA) to de-list from Nairobi Securities Exchange following the full takeover ...
Intelligence
Digital Payments in Kenya Grow Beyond Pandemic-Led Push, reports Cellulant
The growth witnessed in Kenya is reflective of the payments landscape in the rest of Africa, reports Cellulant, with a noted shift in ...
Intelligence
Kenya: The number of malicious URLs recently detected by Kaspersky threatening Kenyan and Nigerian Internet users reaches 6.5 million combined
More than 30 million web threats were seen across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria combined between April – June 2021 While the number ...
Kenya
Kenya: World Bank, AfDB blacklist nearly 20 Kenya firms over fraud
Nearly 20 Kenya-based companies have been blacklisted by the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in less than two years over ...
Kenya
Kenya: CBK Takes Baby Steps Towards Launch Of a Digital Currency
Kenya is exploring the possibility of developing and launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to settle cross-border payments, as it seeks to ...
Kenya
Kenya: Kwara launches regional offices as it targets thousands of SACCOs across Kenya
Digital banking platform Kwara has announced a regional expansion as part of their rollout across Kenya Kwara has placed permanent regional representatives across Western, ...