StanChart to close eight branches for three months

StanChart to close eight branches for three months

A Standard Chartered bank branch in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG Standard Chartered Bank Kenya will on Friday close eight branches due to Covid-19, which has reduced business activities on extended state restrictions on mass gathering. The bank has informed its customers that Koinange, Harambee Avenue, T-Mall, Two Rivers, Ruaraka/Garden City, Upper Hill, Jomo Kenyatta […]

EABL staff face layoffs

EABL plant at Ruaraka in Nairobi. Parent company Diageo plans to retrench more than 100 employees. FILE PHOTO | NMG London-based brewer Diageo, the parent company of East African Breweries (EABL), is set to retrench more than 100 employees working at its business support centre in Nairobi, marking one of the latest large-scale layoffs in […]

Who Owns Kenyan Banks?

Banking in Kenya dates back to the pre-colonial periods. The first banks largely concentrated on financing international trade along the Europe-South Africa–India axis, but later diversified operations to tap the opportunities for profitable banking created by a growing farming settler community and pioneer traders in the local economy to whom they provided deposit and credit […]

EABL staff face layoffs

EABL plant at Ruaraka in Nairobi. Parent company Diageo plans to retrench more than 100 employees. FILE PHOTO | NMG London-based brewer Diageo, the parent company of East African Breweries (EABL) #ticker:EABL, is set to retrench more than 100 employees working at its business support centre in Nairobi, marking one of the latest large-scale layoffs […]