Ratings agency Moody’s says small Kenyan banks suffering losses or facing insolvency are likely to become targets of acquisitions by their larger rivals over the next one-and-a-half years. The ratings firm says local lenders are witnessing a wide divergence in profitability, with 14 of the institutions in the smaller peer group reporting losses or negligible […]
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Inside meteoric rise of NCBA to a tier one lender
One of the biggest mergers in the past three years in Kenya has been what created NCBA Bank #ticker:NCBA , whose swift growth has made it the lender to watch. Just two years after the NIC Bank and CBA Bank merger, NCBA is now the largest lender by customer base. By the time of the […]
Kenya : Companies that have rebranded in 2021
Companies have rebranded in the last one-year or so to boost business and reinvigorate presence amid an economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is usual for companies to develop new logos, marketing materials as well as names to rejuvenate interest from consumers, employees and investors, as well as stay ahead of competitors. Recent […]
Companies that have rebranded in 2021
Companies have rebranded in the last one-year or so to boost business and reinvigorate presence amid an economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is usual for companies to develop new logos, marketing materials as well as names to rejuvenate interest from consumers, employees and investors, as well as stay ahead of competitors. Recent […]
Kenya : Companies that have rebranded in 2021
Companies have rebranded in the last one-year or so to boost business and reinvigorate presence amid an economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is usual for companies to develop new logos, marketing materials as well as names to rejuvenate interest from consumers, employees and investors, as well as stay ahead of competitors. Recent […]
Companies that have rebranded in 2021
Companies have rebranded in the last one-year or so to boost business and reinvigorate presence amid an economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is usual for companies to develop new logos, marketing materials as well as names to rejuvenate interest from consumers, employees and investors, as well as stay ahead of competitors. Recent […]
NCBA to retain relationship with CRB clients
NCBA bank general managing director John Gachora during the Embu branch opening event at Embu town on Monday, December 6. NCBA bank has vowed not to change its existing customer relations with Kenyans listed on Kenyan Credit Reference Bureau. This is despite President Kenyatta’s directive to financial institutions to exclude Kenyans listed on CRB. NCBA […]
Move over M-Shwari and KCB M-Pesa, Fuliza now the new lending king
The Fuliza overdraft service transacts more than Sh1.2 billion daily. Safaricom’s overdraft facility, Fuliza, has taken less than three years to capture the digital lending market. But the telco’s climb to the pinnacle of the market segment has been anything but smooth. It started with M-Kesho—the ill-fated product launched by the mobile service provider in […]
Move over M-Shwari and KCB M-Pesa, Fuliza now the new lending king
The Fuliza overdraft service transacts more than Sh1.2 billion daily. Safaricom’s overdraft facility, Fuliza, has taken less than three years to capture the digital lending market. But the telco’s climb to the pinnacle of the market segment has been anything but smooth. It started with M-Kesho—the ill-fated product launched by the mobile service provider in […]
Size of locally listed stocks declines by 1.3 per cent
The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has said a drop in share prices of locally listed companies saw the size of Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) decline by 1.3 per cent for the period ended September. In details contained in its Quarterly Bulletin, CMA noted that domestic market capitalisation declined from Shs4.33 trillion for the period ended […]