United Bank for Africa Kenya (UBA Kenya) has partnered with local, regional, and global banks, joined a Financing Agreement of up to Ksh. 1.25 billion (USD 125 ...
Safaricom has announced that it is planning to expand its e-commerce platform Masoko to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by year 2020. This is on the back...
On demand delivery service Glovo has announced that it has partnered with Java House Africa, Zucchini Greengrocers, On the way supermarkets and Naivas supermark...
Nova Pioneer has broken ground for the construction of two new secondary schools located in Uasin Gishu County, in a joint partnership with the Local Authoritie...
Kenya’s KCB Bank and Equity Bank have emerged winners in the African Banker Awards 2019. KCB Bank won the prize for innovation and Equity Bank for its CSR activ...
East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has announced that the first phase of Got Skillz?, a competition that will culminate in the redesign of the company logo.
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Liquid Telecom is in the process of implementing and operating South Sudan’s first fibre broadband network, connecting the country to the “One Africa” broadband...
Simba Corporation has signed a deal with AutoXpress that will see Mitsubishi and Mahindra vehicle owners access after sales service for their cars at AutoXpres...
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has indicated that it would approve the merger between Airtel and Telkom within 30 days. The merger will give rise to...
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has launched the Manufacturing SME Hub that is geared towards helping manufacturing SMEs to take full advantage of ...
The 254 Youth Entrepreneurship Awards & Mentorship Program has named Dr. Maxwel Okoth as its top Male Entrepreneur Under 35 winner for 2019. Dr. Okoth is the fo...
A Kenyan online energy news website has won a Financial Journalism award in the Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism 2018 competition.
The we...
Nairobi Securities Exchange which launched the trading on future contracts known as “NEXT Derivatives Market” last week is offering its investors index futures ...
In a presentation to Parliament, the Central Bank Governor Dr. Patrick Njoroge indicated that there was a need to regulate the online lending firms. This is in ...
SYSPRO, a global provider of industry-built Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for manufacturers and distributors in collaboration with Strathmore Univ...
The Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB) has ordered Safaricom to suspend Mpesa paybills and SMS short codes for 27 betting firms including SportPesa and ...
The Standard Chartered Bank has hosted financial institution and correspondent banking clients from across Africa at the Bank’s Regional Correspondent Banking A...
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...
