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Reinventing Infrastructure Finance: Inside Kenya’s National Infrastructure Fund
With the recent passage of the National Infrastructure Fund Bill, 2025, by the National Assembly, Kenya is entering a new chapter in its approach to financing large-scale infrastructure. This is an important milestone that reflects both our ambition and our willingness to adapt. The National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) is not just another statutory body. It […]...
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6 Feb 2026
Analysis of the Government-Owned Enterprises Act, 2025
The government has been conducting a myriad of governance reforms, including reforms in State Corporations (SCs). In October 2023, the National Treasury released the Ownership Policy of Government-Own...
16 Jan 2026
Kenya’s Financial Services Sector in 2026: Policy, Power, and the Battle for Trust
In 2026, Kenya’s financial services sector is no longer merely evolving but is poised for deliberate and far-reaching re-engineering. The system that earned global acclaim for leapfrogging tradition...
16 Jan 2026
Financing Kenya’s Infrastructure: Lessons from Public Input on the Safaricom Partial Divestiture
The call for change, boldness, and innovation featured prominently in President William Ruto’s State of the Nation Address on November 20, 2025, centred around four national priorities: transport an...
19 Dec 2025
The 2025 Policy Year in Review
Introduction The year 2025 was characterised by heightened policy activity in Kenya amid persistent economic strain, accelerating digitalisation, and growing public scrutiny of how regulatory power ...
19 Dec 2025
Policy Outlook 2026: Key Issues to Monitor
Introduction As the world heads into an AI-driven 2026, there are several critical things to watch for, both risks and missed opportunities. China is pushing ahead with chip-making after elim...
12 Dec 2025
Supreme Court Reprieve in Digital Payments: Analysing Implications of Decision in Absa Bank Kenya vs. Commissioner for Domestic Taxes
Kenya has established itself as one of Africa’s most sophisticated digital financial ecosystems, earning Nairobi the moniker “Silicon Savannah”. Over the past decade, high mobile penetration, a ...
5 Dec 2025
Fortune Favours the Bold: Kenya’s Strategic Turn in Fiscal Governance
There are moments in a nation’s economic journey when circumstance ceases to be negotiable, when the only way forward is through reinvention. Kenya stands precisely at such a juncture. The country...
28 Nov 2025
The Quiet Emergence of a Domestic Yield Curve: Why Safaricom and EABL Matter More Than Their Numbers
Kenya’s capital markets rarely enjoy the spotlight for structural progress. Too often, they are defined by volatility, political noise, or long periods of stagnation. Yet beneath that surface, real ...
28 Nov 2025
Understanding Safaricom’s Domestic Medium-Term Note Programme
On November 26, 2025, Safaricom sat down with members of the Fourth Estate to unpack its Domestic Medium-Term Note Programme. Throughout the session, executives emphasised transparency, disciplined de...
7 Nov 2025
The Politics Behind Africa’s Sovereign Wealth Funds: Lessons for Kenya
The National Treasury recently published the 2025 Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) Bill, sparking considerable discussion among financial and governance analysts. The fund is expected to comprise three mai...
16 Oct 2025
Monetary Easing Measures Need to be Backed by Structural Reforms for Significant Impact
The dust has barely settled on the Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK) latest monetary policy move, yet the debate it stirs is far from over. On October 7, 2025, the Monetary Policy Committee cut the Cent...
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