Unlocking Investment Opportunities: Standard Chartered Bank Kenya’s Offshore Unit Trust Funds
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has introduced an exciting opportunity for Kenyan investors to explore offshore…
Banking for the Unbanked: Tala Crowned World’s Best Fintech Twice.
Published: May 22, 2026 When Tala won CNBC’s World’s Top FinTech award in 2025, it was not a fluke. It was a repeat. The digital lender secured the top spot for the second year in a row, beating out more than 2,000 fintech firms from across the globe. CNBC and Statista ran the numbers. They…
World Bank: New Way to Create Jobs in Kenya’s Slums.
Published: May 19, 2026 The project is called KISIP 2 — the second in Kenya’s Informal Settlement Improvement an innovation toward the Digital Public Works. And according to a top World Bank official, it might be exactly what fast-growing cities need to stop leaving young people behind. Axel van Trotsenburg, the Senior Managing Director of the…
Record KSh 5B+ Sits Idle as Claims Decline. Why Aren’t People Claiming Their Money?
Published: May, 11, 2026 Kenya’s pool of unclaimed financial assets hit another record high in 2026. But here is the strange part: fewer people are stepping forward to claim what belongs to them. According to the Economic Survey 2026 released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority received KSh 5.18 billion…
SACCOs vs Banks: Who is Hurting More With Bad Debt?
Published: May 9, 2026 According to new supervisory data from the SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA), the industry’s gross loans hit KSh 845.11 billion, up from KSh 758.57 billion a year earlier. That is 11.41% credit growth. But here is the kicker: the non-performing loan ratio held steady at 8.39%. Banks Are Bleeding More Than The…
Kenyan Agriculture Quietly Overtook Banks & Factories—Combined
Published: May 7, 2026 Kenya’s agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector has reached its largest share of the economy on record. According to the Economic Survey 2026 released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, the sector accounted for 23.2% of gross domestic product. That works out to KSh 4.07 trillion out of Kenya’s KSh 17.58…
