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Family Bank targets to raise Ksh4 billion in its first tranche with the balance to be raised within the next five years in various tranches/series. “We are positioning the bank for the second phase of growth as per our 2020-2024 strategy anchored on growth and stability of the bank," says Family Bank CEO Rebecca Mbithi. The banks wants to strengthen its capital base to support lending to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and heavily invest in technology infrastructure while diversifying its products.

While miners became a popular tool in cybercriminals’ arsenals beginning in 2018, their popularity had steadily declined over the course of 2020. However, according to Kaspersky’s Malware Q1 2021 report, that changed in the first quarter of 2021.

There are many ways through which you can determine the value of your land. The most basic of which is by hiring a real estate agent that can help evaluate the price of your land. Keep in mind that by land, we are talking about the area only and not the property itself. Alternatively, you can use websites like this which help you automatically calculate the value of your land.  Apps like this help you understand all of the important factors that affect the housing market and the price of your land. Moreover, it helps give you an accurate look at what you can expect when selling your house as compared to the price of land in other cities.

Simply put, although getting a good education is much easier today, one cannot ignore the cost. A carefully designed education policy presents a solution to any parent or guardian with big dreams for their children. Contrary to what some people believe, having an education policy that works for you is easy. A good insurer will take the time to understand the parent’s expectation and work out a plan that will best suit the parent, and ultimately realise that dream.

Investing in property and holding it for an extended period is a low-risk investment strategy that can garner favourable returns in the long run. Instead of selling the property based on market fluctuations, you will hold the property and collect income from rent to fulfill short-term cash-flow requirements as the property’s market value appreciates over time.  You must conduct thorough research and choose an area primed for property value appreciation in the future.

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JP Morgan, one of the largest investment banks in the US, indicated that while more than $3 billion had flowed into the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in the last quarter of 2020, gold ETFs had bled $7 billion over the same period.

At the beginning of 2017, Bitcoin held almost 88% of all capital invested in the crypto market. With over 700 new cryptocurrencies that hit the market in 2017 alone, Bitcoin’s market share dropped to 38% by the end of the year.