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Sanlam Kenya Group CEO Patrick Tumbo 2024
BUSINESS

Sanlam Kenya Adopts Financial Engineering Strategy to Accelerate Growth

Listed local non-bank finance solutions provider Sanlam Kenya PLC has formulated a business plan to accelerate the firm’s growth and profitability.

CBK Governor Kamau Thugge - Interbank Rates
ECONOMY

CBK Reforms to Tighten Interbank Rates and Lower Cost of Credit

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has taken measures to tighten the disparity between interbank rates and its benchmark lending rate in a...

Investors Pour Money Into Money Market Funds as Unit Trusts Assets Set New Highs
MARKETS

Top 5 Best Money Market Funds in Kenya (2024)

The “money markets” are a financial segment where assets with brief maturity periods provide a relatively near-stable and high market-driven rate of returns...

Digital lenders will be teaching their customers about financial wellness this month. www.businesstoday.co.ke
SMART MONEY

Keeping Money in the Bank Won’t Make You Wealthy

If the bank is keeping Ksh1,000 for you for a year, the returns will not be more than Ksh200.

Uhuru signs into law interest capping www.businesstoday.co.ke
ECONOMY

Uhuru Throws Kenyans in the Sea of Banking Sharks

The Finance Act 2019, among other provisions, repeals section 33B of the Banking Act that provides for the capping of bank interest rates.

FEATURED STORY

Why World Bank wants Saccos turned into banks

Global lender says while the country already has 43 commercial banks, one way of increasing competition would be to allow Saccos to compete...

FEATURED STORY

Barclays Bank closes seven branches

Hundreds to lose jobs as branches are merged while others are shut down in new restructuring

FEATURED STORY

KBA’s online live chat with bank CEOs resumes

This Friday's chat will be hosted by I&M Bank CEO Maina Kihara under the topic “Developments in the Financial Markets”

REAL ESTATE

Kenyans splash Sh210bn on buying homes

Demand attributed to an increased appetite for home ownership as opposed to rentals with the value of mortgage loan assets outstanding increasing from...