Standard Chartered Bank has released its financial results for the half year ending 30 June, 2021. Profit before tax grew 37% compared to a similar period last ...
NCBA has announced a partnership with MySafe Vaults, a safe deposits service provider to offer alternative safety deposit facilities to customers in Nairobi.
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Cellulant, a digital payments company, has received approval to get a Payment Services Provider (PSP) License in Ghana. The PSP License allows Cellulant to aggr...
The Kenya Power Board of Directors has appointed Eng. Rosemary Oduor as the Acting Managing Director and CEO of the Company with effect from 3rd August, 2021. T...
Jambojet has announced plans to begin operations to North Kivu Capital, Goma in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the Coastal Island of Lamu. Thi...
Equity Bank has been named the Best Regional Bank in East Africa at the 2021 African Banker Awards. The award was conferred to Equity for its consistent financi...
Bolt, an on-demand mobility platform, has raised Ksh. 78 billion funding to accelerate the expansion of its existing mobility and delivery products across its A...
Wapi Pay, a Kenyan startup has raised Ksh. 239 Million in pre-seed funding to scale up global payments and remittances between Africa and Asia. Making internat...
Emirates has introduced additional flexible payment options for Kenyan travellers, offering them a better real-time user experience on the airline’s website and...
Safaricom has announced an increase in Skiza revenue share for artists and content creators by 33%. Following the revenue increase, more than 20,000 artists and...
Mizizi Africa Homes has emerged top in the Top score brands Real Estate Awards 2021. The developer has been recognized as the most affordable mid-plan housing c...
Early this year, Old Mutual launched the Sisonke competition aimed at creating awareness and rewarding impactful community initiatives in Africa.
The Sisonke...
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has called for the immediate suspension of a number of provisions in the Finance Act 2021. This is in a bid to cush...
Safaricom shareholders recently approved their nod for the setting up and incorporation of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia which is set to begin operation...
The sixth edition of the Sub-Sahara Spectrum Management Conference has kicked off, with regulators, experts, and other industry players looking for the African ...
Bolt, an on-demand transport platform, has launched an on-demand cash withdrawal feature dubbed Early Cash-Out. The feature enables drivers to instantly withdra...
IBM has announced the appointment Saad Toma as the General Manager of IBM Middle East and Africa (MEA), effective immeadiately. Mr. Toma succeeds Takreem El-Toh...
Toyota Kenya has partnered with Pride Drive, a corporate car hire company to cater to the increasing demand of car hire services in the country. Toyota Kenya ha...
LG Electronics (LG) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) technologies have won international accolades for their high performance. The models that w...
Prudential, an insurance brand listed in London with operations across Asia and Africa has applied to join the newly established Nairobi International Financial...
President Uhuru Kenyatta, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab have announced a new Ksh. 19.9 billion (£132 million) inves...
Mobile operator Vodafone Group in a trading update for its Q1 fiscal report has registered a strong growth in Africa. Driven by its financial platform M-PESA, t...
Ecobank and the African Union Development Agency New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) have held a virtual graduation ceremony for more than 200...
Cellulant, a Pan-African payments company, has partnered with Link Commerce, a B2B eCommerce platform, to avail relevant digital payment options to consumers in...
Unga Group, a holding company based in Kenya, has entered into an agreement to sell all its Ennsvalley Bakery assets to BigCold Kenya.
Unga Group is involved...
NCBA Bank has launched a product to provide home buyers with a platform for all their construction solutions, dubbed NCBA EasyBuild.
Through NCBA EasyBuild, ...
I&M Bank has partnered with Crown Motors in a Vehicle Asset Financing agreement that will see the Bank finance Crown Motors passenger cars and light commerc...
According to studies, the global sports betting market is on the rise. Moreover, financial reports state that the industry could be worth over 134 billion USD b...
The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to drive the migration of consumers from the traditional transactions to the digital space. The Kenya Bankers Association’s (KB...
According to international energy agency, around 580 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to electricity in 2019, three-quarters of the global tot...
Global credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has affirmed the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) credit rating at triple As (AAA), with a stable outlook. Fitch at...
Standard Chartered Bank recently appointed two new directors, Nivedita Sharma, a technology and innovation expert and banking professional Birju Sanghrajka to i...
UAP Old Mutual and the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) have announced their partnership to boost the integration of financial education in a pr...
Cellulant, a Pan-African financial technology company, has been issued with an approval in principle by the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) to operate as a Payment Solut...
The Ecobank Group has partnered with Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub and Ecobank Academy to provide training to SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa. The training is aime...
Standard Chartered Bank has announced a partnership with Uniserv Education to see the latter provide different solutions for the banks clients whose children ar...
SMEs the field of manufacturing under the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) have called on the government to harmonize laws, policies, regulations and st...
The Acorn Project, the Issuer of the Acorn Medium-Term Green Note (MTN) program recently closed the final tranche on Friday 16th July, 2021. The Issuer raised K...
Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), a philanthropic program under the Jack Ma Foundation in Africa has announced the top 50 finalists for the 2021 ABH prize competi...
Uber, a cab hailing platform, has revealed the top destinations that Kenyans have visited. This is through a comparative study from 2019 and 2021, showcasing to...
Cloud Productivity Solutions (CPS), a Kenyan IT company, was among 9 African companies that were celebrated at this year’s Microsoft Partner Awards event.
Th...
Zoom Video Communications will from August 1st , 2021 begin to charge Kenyan users a digital tax payable to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
Zoom, which is...
