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Martin K.N Siele is the Content Lead at Business Today. He is also a Quartz contributor and a 2021 Baraza Media Lab-Fringe Graph Data Storytelling Fellow. Passionate about digital media, sports and entertainment, Siele also founded Loud.co.ke

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A motorist fuels at a petrol station. [Photo/ Standard]
BUSINESSECONOMY

Why EPRA Kept Fuel Prices Unchanged

EPRA is banking on the State subsidy introduced in April to keep prices within reach for Kenyans who remain wary of the knock-on...

Securities trader Joram Ongura at Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) trading floor at the Exchange building in Nairobi on August 26, 2020. The NSE 20 Share Index - a price weighted index calculated as a mean of the top 20 best performing counters - fell by 29.6 per cent in 2020. [Photo: SALATON NJAU (NAIROBI)]
MARKETS

Why Foreign Investors Stopped Fleeing NSE

The onset of the pandemic in 2020 saw many foreign investors flee emerging markets including Kenya, preferring to put their money in more...

Among other things, digital lenders have been accused of exploitative lending, debt shaming, money laundering and illegal mining of private customer data. [Photo/ Cathryn Virginia | NBC News]
ECONOMY

Digital Loans to Flow Once Again as CBK Backs Apps’ Return to CRBs

The suspension of digital lenders from CRB reporting had seen a massive decline in the volumes of loans they issued. According to the...

Kukito by Java House was unveiled in October 2019, with the first branch located along Kimathi Street in the Nairobi Central Business District (CBD). [Photo/ Yummy.co.ke]
BUSINESS

Kukito: Java’s Chicken & Chips Brand Plots Major Expansion, Mulls Franchising

The company had to put on hold plans to open outlets at various sites in Nairobi among other areas. Now, however, it is...

KRA's Times Tower Headquarters.
ECONOMY

6,600 New Hires to be Made at KRA as Taxman Eyes Ksh6.83 Trillion

The KRA has identified segments with high potential for growing revenues, including online businesses, informal small-scale trade, real estate (landlords) and HNWIs.

Kenya Power technicians at work. The firm has failed to clear taxes and storage fees for a shipment of transformers.
BUSINESS

Kenya Power Transformers Set for Auction Over Unpaid Taxes

The transformers were shipped into the country in 2014, at a time when the state-owned monopoly was embarking on an ambitious plan to...

Among scams reported to the CMA are unregulated forex, stock trading and cryptocurrency operations.
BUSINESSMARKETS

40 Forex Scams Costing Kenyans Millions – CMA Reveals

The CMA noted that investors were promised returns of as high as 20 per cent. One alleged scam mastermind operating from Nakuru was...

Equity Group
BUSINESS

Equity Bank Hack: 8 Kenyans Jailed in Rwanda

The Kenyans handed jail terms include Dedan Muchoki Muriuki, Samuel Wachira Nyuguto, Kinyua Erickson Macharia, Godfrey Gachiri Githinji, Eric Dickson Njagi Mutegi, Reuben...