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Kenya Issues Draft Regulations for Crowdfunding Platforms
The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning has published regulations that require all persons who operate or intend to operate an investment-based ...
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Kenya: CMA Pushes Kenyan Firms to Acquire Bank-Backed Guarantees in Bond Issue
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is working on new measures to revive the troubled corporate bond market that will see companies with weaker ...
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High court tells Safaricom to compensate visually impaired man
Kenya’s leading telecommunications company, Safaricom, was fined by a high court to compensate a blind man with KSH 6 million (approximately $56,000) over ...
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Nairobi is Top Fintech City in Africa: 2021 Global Fintech Rankings
Nairobi is the city with the largest fintech ecosystem in Africa, according to 2021 Global Fintech Rankings. Kenya’s commercial nerve centre jumped 26 ...
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Kenya: KDIC Rolls Out Banks’ Risk-Based Premium Model After One-Year Suspension
Kenya has rolled out the risk-based insurance premium model for commercial banks after a one-year suspension due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Kenya ...
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Kenya locks out borrowers with multiple mobile loans
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya will lock out borrowers with multiple digital loans from its mobile lending app that will be unveiled in the coming ...
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HealthTech startup, Helium Health extends its health services to Kenya
Helium Health, the largest Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Management Information (HMI) Systems provider in West Africa has launched its services in ...
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Kenyan food-tech startup Kune raises $1m pre-seed funding
Kenyan food-tech startup Kune, which delivers freshly-made, ready-to-eat meals at affordable prices, has closed a pre-seed funding round worth US$1 million to help ...
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Safaricom rolls out new video streaming service
Kenya’s Safaricom has launched BAZE, a new video streaming service that offers a wide variety of local and regional short form videos. in ...
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Kenya- Telkom facilitates e-Citizen payments using T-Kash
Kenya: Telkom facilitates e-Citizen payments using T-Kash Telkom Kenya has integrated its financial services platform T-kash into the government digital services platform, eCitizen. ...