Category: Kenya
Kenya set to issue four-day transit visa
NMG Kenya will from January start issuing four-day transit visas allowing foreign passengers on Kenya Airways awaiting connection flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to exit for shopping and sightseeing. Passengers on layovers — a break between two flights taking passengers to their final destination — will receive a 96-hour transit visa, up from […]
Pesalink app signs up 2 million customers in 60 days
IPSL Chief Executive Officer, Jennifer Theuri says they hope to raise the number of banks using Pesalink in the next few weeks So far, 22 commercial banks are part of the network allowing customers to move money across banks through the app. The banks include; I&M Bank Kenya, CBA, First Community Bank, Paramount Bank, Jamii […]
Europe Investment Bank signs $100m+ facility with Equity and HF for lending to regional SMEs
Equity Bank of Kenya Limited Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi (R) and European Investment Bank Vice-President Pim Van Ballekom (L) in Nairobi on 29/03/2017. Equity Bank has signed Kshs 10.5 Billion financing agreement with European Investment Bank to support regional entrepreneurs. European Investment Bank, the long-term lending institution of the European Union, has extended about […]
Kenyan Stock Exchange to introduce ETFs
INDIVIDUAL investors may from the third quarter buy into a diverse number of stocks and bonds including highly priced blue chips trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. This will be possible through the Exchange-Traded Funds whose regulations, the Capital Markets Authority and the Nairobi Securities Exchange said yesterday, are being fast tracked. An ETF basket […]