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1 Aug 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 29 of 2025
KENYA Banks Win on Terms to Dictate Loan Costs in CBK’s U-Turn The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has retreated from its plans to control lending rates using its benchmark rate, handing a victory to co...
25 Jul 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 28 of 2025
Kenya World Bank Freezes KSh 96.9Bn to Kenya on Reform Delays The World Bank has withheld the disbursement of a KSh 96.93 billion (USD 750 million) loan to Kenya over delays in implementing agreed-u...
18 Jul 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 27 of 2025
Kenya Record Customs Revenue In January Over New Alcohol, Sugar Tax Formula Higher taxes on imported alcohol and sugar pushed customs revenue to a record Sh82.55 billion in January, with the Kenya Rev...
11 Jul 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 26 of 2025
Kenya Nairobi Eyeing Extra KSh 5bn in Land Rates from Crackdown City Hall aims to collect an additional KSh 5 billion in land rates as part of its crackdown on development and houses built on existi...
4 Jul 2025
Trade and Financial Services Round-Up: Issue No. 25 of 2025
KENYA Banks Partner with Metropol for Women’s Credit Data Metropol Credit Reference Bureau has partnered with the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) to enhance the collection, analysis, and application...
27 Jun 2025
Trade and Financial Services Round Up: Issue No. 24 of 2025
Kenya Gen Z Protests Hit Businesses in 25 Counties Business activity and transport in 25 counties were disrupted on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets to mark the first anniversary of the dea...
20 Jun 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue 23 of 2025
Kenya Kenya Becomes Fourth Biggest Recipient of AfDB Project Funds Kenya has jumped five spots to become the fourth-largest recipient of project funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB), secur...
13 Jun 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue 22 of 2025
Kenya CBK Cuts Benchmark Rate, Revises 2025 GDP Growth The Central Bank of Kenya Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has lowered its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 9.75%, returning it to si...
5 Jun 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue No. 21 of 2025
KENYA Equity Group Pushes Back on DRC’s Local Stake Requirement Equity Group has sought an exemption from a rule in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that requires the lender to sell a 30 per c...
30 May 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round-Up: Issue 20 of 2025
Kenya KRA Faces Class Action Suit Over Freezing of VAT Returns Over 5,000 businesses have taken KRA to court to challenge a decision that’s crippled their operations. Last month, the tax authority p...
23 May 2025
Trade and Financial Services Round-Up: Issue No. 19 of 2025
Kenya As Defaulters Vanish, State Seeks Another Sh5 bn for Hustler Fund The government is seeking an additional Sh5 billion for the Hustler Fund, even as nearly Sh6 billion in disbursed loans remain u...
16 May 2025
Trade and Financial Service Round Up: Issue No. 18 of 2025
KENYA Petrol, diesel, and Kerosene prices to remain unchanged in EPRA’s May review The prices of super petrol, diesel, and kerosene will remain unchanged in the latest review by the Energy and P...
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