Business

Good news to Kenyans. Following a directive by the Central Bank of Kenya to lower lending rates down from 14% to 13.5%, Equity bank has taken the early initiative to implement the change to its…

As Africa’s grows, there is the need for countries to have insights and tools to improve the state of their financial markets. Financial markets is a broad term describing any marketplace where trading of securities…

All industries and indeed countries experience cycles of economic growth based on many factors. These factors include the health of the market, what consumers need, environmental factors and also political factors affecting both local and…

This morning, Barclays Bank launched the Africa Financial Markets Index – an index that is prepared by Barclays Africa Group Limited and which looks at financial markets in the continent. The Index which is a…

Barclays Bank today launched the Macro Economic Report at an event attended by IMF/WB/AFDB senior representatives, treasury and CBK representatives, and Barclays Kenya Managing Director Jeremy Awori among others. This is a report that is…

It’s been 5 years since the inception of M-Shwari. A partnership between Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom which incorporates a mobile lending and saving solution. Being the first of its kind, the financial…

Earlier this year, Safaricom launched a new brand philosophy ‘Twaweza’ which means that when people come together great things happen.  In the same spirit, the company has also made continuous efforts to bring services closer…

On 1st of this month, lady luck smiled on business woman Millicent Nyamancha Kwamboka in the form of a lottery win of Ksh.20,294,296/-. This makes Millicent the first person to win a Pambazuka National Lottery…

A lot of times when we call customer care, it is because we have an issue to be sorted. So mostly we are already agitated and prone to being harsh. For a company the size…