Safaricom has announced that it will sponsor the inaugural Afro-Asia FinTech Festival 2019 dubbed ‘Fintech in the Savannah’ which will be co-hosted by the Centr...
Valentine Cake House a bakery based in Nairobi has launched its Corporate Social Investment wing that will enable impact communities across the country through ...
ERP provider SYSPRO has together with Strathmore University has released research findings from a study that saw close to 100 Kenyan companies drawn from 12 man...
Safaricom announced that its CEO Bob Collymore passed away on the morning of July 1st at his home.
Following the passing on of Bob Collymore (aka Robert Will...
Safaricom has launched launched voice and video calls over its 4G network, popularly known as Voicer over LTE (VoLTE) and Video over LTE (ViLTE). The services a...
Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) and Coca-Cola Central, East and West Africa Limited (CEWA Ltd) have announced that a further 285,000 Kenyan women will be empowered ...
Safaricom has launched a fraud intelligence solution for financial institutions in the country. The service will help banks, micro-finance institutions and insu...
Stanbic Bank has launched a product for women dubbed D.A.D.A. that will provide essential financial and non-financial services that Kenyan women need to grow. T...
Kenya’s Solar Freeze and Illuminum Greenhouses have emerged as winners in Cisco’s Problem Solver Challenge. Solar Freeze won the first runner up position, getti...
Equity is among Kenyan partners that have been signed up to the Young Africa Works initiative by Mastercard. Equity will deploy its banking infrastructure as we...
Despite Africa being the continent with the youngest and fastest growing population in the world and with some of the fastest growing economies in the world. It...
Safaricom has been sued for an eye watering Ksh. 115 trillion for an alleged data breach that involved customer data.
In a suit, filed in the High Court on F...
Safaricom has announced that its chief technology officer (CTO) Thibaud Rerolle will be leaving the firm at the end of July and will be headed to Vodafone Tur...
Safaricom has announced that it has joined the highest governing body of the Unstereotype Alliance chaired by Phumzile Mlambo – Ngcuka, the UN Women Executive D...
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced that the Presidents of Rwanda, Senegal and DRC to headline the Presidential Dialogue at the 2019 TEF Entreprene...
Software Group has announced that is has appointed Mr. Connor Hanan to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Africa. Software Group is a global soft...
Visa has partnered with KCB Bank and the Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya (BAK) to digitize payments for the motorcycle transport operators.
The partne...
Bolt, the leading ride-hailing platform has announced that it start operations in Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika. This the stage for a continued push to expand its ...
Visa has announced a partnership with IBS Bank, which will enable the bank to deepen its payments services in Somalia by going live with its acquiring business ...
Equity Bank has announced that it has given out Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as at the first quarter of 2019. This i...
Safaricom has announced the availability of a “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to pay for calls for loved ones. The service en...
Airtel Africa which is the continent’s second largest mobile operator is expecting a valuation of Ksh. 460 Billion in an IPO at the London Stock Exchange.
Th...
DPO Group, a payment service provider, has launched Africa’s first business to business payment card. DPO’s DumaCard, which is offered as a plastic card as wel...
Mobile loan service Tala has celebrated 5 years of existence having first launched in the Kenyan market in 2014.
The loan service was initially known as Mkop...
An online platform for women agriprenuers named VALUE4HERConnect has been launched in Nairobi. This is a part of a program led by the Technical Centre for Agric...
The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr Henry Rotich yesterday read the 2019/2020 budget statement. Among the proposals he laid out were the repeal ...
Following the reading of the Budget Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr Henry Rotich, the Alcoholic Beverages Association of Kenya ...
Safaricom launched Lipa na M-Pesa in 2013 to enable merchants to be able to accept payments via their popular mobile payments platform, M-Pesa. The launch broug...
Safaricom has made it into the prestigious Forbes Global 2000 list of the leading 2000 public companies in the world. Safaricom is the only Kenyan company on th...
Following yesterday’s presentation in Parliament of the budget for the 2019/20 financial year, the Route to Food Initiative wishes to state as follows:
▪ Gov...
East Breweries Limited (EABL) in conjunction with Nature Kenya and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) joined the residents of Kieni Forest, Kiambu County in marking Wor...
The Mest Africa Summit that took place on 12th June in Nairobi and three startups won $50,000 in the MEST Africa Challenge finals.
The event was organized by...
Fine Edge Media, a media publishing house, is set to officially launch 14 magazines in the Kenyan market at the end of June.
The Creative Media house will be...
Equity Bank has been given a license to operate in Ethiopia by the country’s regulator. As such the bank has set up a Commercial Representative Office in Addis ...
WorldRemit has launched a new service that will enable UK based companies to pay their employees and contractors in 150 countries worldwide, including African c...
European Investment Bank has launched a new EUR 50 million (Ksh. 5.7 billion) agriculture sector financing programme. The Kenya Agriculture Value Chain Facility...
Creadev, a global investment company, has announced that it has made an investment of Ksh. 500 million (USD 5 million) in Twiga Foods. Twiga is a Kenyan-based t...
Blue Band has launched the Good Breakfast Campaign for the third year running and will provide breakfast to 2 million children in Kenya. The campaign aims to ta...
Centum Investment Company PLC has announced that its full year pretax profit for the period ending March 2019 rose 41% to Ksh. 4.44 billion. This is a 41% incre...
According to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) a majority of African countries have a positive economic outlook due to their d...
Nissan has announced changes in its senior management in a bid to drive sustainable growth across the continent. This is due to the fact that with a growing mid...
Two Safaricom employees have been charged in court over the unlawful transfer of customer data belonging to the company. The two were arraigned yesterday before...
