Trade and Financial Services Round Up

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 46 of 2025

Kenya Government Fees Income Supports Revenues As KRA Misses All Targets Income from fees on government services increased by 28% in the first quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, reaching KSh136 billion, helping partially offset shortfalls in tax collections. Appropriations in Aid (A-I-A), collected by ministries, departments, and agencies, exceeded targets due to higher charges […]...

21 Nov 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 45 of 2025

Kenya CA Tasked to Explain Delay in Implementing Cheaper Call Rates Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has asked the Senate Standing Committee on Information, Communication, and Technology to explain wh...

14 Nov 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 44 of 2025

KENYA How Treasury, MPs Skills Gap Is Pushing Kenya to Debt Distress The African Development Bank warns that a skills gap is worsening Kenya’s rising debt distress. Specifically, weak technical capa...

7 Nov 2025

Trade and Financial Services Round-Up: Issue No. 43 of 2025

Kenya NSE Valuation Nears KSh3trn Milestone as Shares Surge The Nairobi Securities Exchange is close to hitting a record KSh3 trillion market value, boosted by strong investor demand as declining inte...

31 Oct 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No 42 of 2025

Kenya Meta Partners With Safaricom to Bring Second Submarine Cable to Kenya Meta has entered a deal with Kenyan telecommunications giant Safaricom to bring its second submarine cable to the country. T...

24 Oct 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 41 of 2025

Kenya Diaspora Remittances Increase by KSh15bn in Nine Months Diaspora remittances into Kenya rose by about KSh 15 billion over the first nine months of 2025, reaching approximately US $3.774 billion ...

16 Oct 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 40 of 2025

Kenya NSE Investors Join Gold Rush On Global Price Rally Local investors continue to flock to the Absa New Gold Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). By the end of last week, Absa recorded a turnover of KSh 100...

9 Oct 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 39 of 2025

Kenya Kenya Eyes KSh 541Bn Bonds for SGR, JKIA After Adani’s Exit The Treasury is considering a USD 4.2 billion (KSh 540 billion) bond to fund the expansion of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and J...

3 Oct 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 38 of 2025

Kenya Trump Administration Backs AGOA Renewal As Africa Faces Bleak Trading Future With US The Trump Administration has offered support for an additional year to the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act ...

26 Sep 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 37 of 2025

KENYA CBK Sets KSh1bn Minimum Capital For Credit Guarantee Companies Credit guarantee companies operating in Kenya will need to raise a minimum capital of KSh 1 billion and maintain adequacy ratios si...

19 Sep 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 36 of 2025

Kenya CBK Governor Asks Banks to End ‘Excuses’, Cut Loan Rates The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has instructed commercial banks to stop offering excuses for not lowering the cost of loans following...

12 Sep 2025

Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 35 of 2025

Kenya Kenya Power to Compensate Homes and Businesses for Blackouts Kenya Power will soon be required to compensate consumers for prolonged blackouts and delays in restoring electricity under new draft...

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