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2 Oct 2020
2nd October 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
KENYA Suspension of the listing of negative credit information for borrowers expires The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) on April 14, 2020, announced a six-month suspension of the listing of negative cred...
2 Oct 2020
FTA Series – Part 3: What you need to know about the COMESA Digital Free Trade Area
COMESA is the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. In 2018, they agreed to establish a Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA). The initiative that upon inception was expected to create a $17.2 billi...
25 Sep 2020
25th September 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
The Ministry of Finance on Wednesday revealed that it will issue invitation for bid to international telecom companies to award two bidders that take over 40 percent stakes of Ethio Telecom in October...
18 Sep 2020
18th September 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
EAST AFRICA The East Africa Community (EAC) Secretariat and its partner states held a virtual roll out event to mark the technical completion and development of the Regional Electronic Cargo and Drive...
18 Sep 2020
Minimum Tax: Leveling playground for businesses and sealing revenue loopholes
By Stephen Kyande
Kenya is one of the jurisdictions in the world that operate a self-assessment tax administration
regime. Primarily, this kind of regime is purely based on trust where the taxman trus...
11 Sep 2020
11th September 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
ETHIOPIA President Sahlework Zewde called on all Ethiopians to continue their support to successfully realize the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the New Year. China will continue providin...
11 Sep 2020
Big wins for SMEs
Banking on technological advances in standards
application, KEBS has also committed to supporting
MSMEs to adopt ICT and adapt to the digital
revolution by exploiting tech opportunities such as
cloud ...
28 Aug 2020
28th August 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
AFRICA Akinwumi Adesina Re-elected as President of the AfDB Group Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (PhD) has been re-elected to serve a second five year term as President of the African Development Bank Group on ...
21 Aug 2020
The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic here to stay, corporations are now forced to operate digitally. Early in the year the Capital Markets Authority released a note stating that publicly listed com...
21 Aug 2020
21st August 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
ETHIOPIA Ethiopia Airlines and Ethiopian Chefs Association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that enables them to work on catering service and food tourism development. Ministry of Finance dis...
14 Aug 2020
Future of ICT business and infrastructure
Kenya is currently one of Africa’s fastest growing ICT markets where ICTs have increased productivity, accelerated processes, increased human resource digital skills and contributed to improved stan...
14 Aug 2020
14th August 2020 Trade & Financial Services Round Up
KENYA Safaricom’s dollar demand tanks shilling to record low The shilling has weakened to a record low of 108.45 units against the dollar, erasing gains made last week, with traders linking this...
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