Background: To promote a stronger, more dynamic, and competitive financial sector, the Kenyan Cabinet has approved key amendments to the Capital Markets Act. One of the major reforms is the removal of ...

Safaricom PLC has marked the formal listing of its Green Bond at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), with 2,453 individual investors ...

Exclusive IFLR data reveals a surge in Sub-Saharan Africa’s legal market in 2025, with banking and capital markets driving ...

Thanks to regulatory reforms and sharia-compliant instruments, the Somali community in Kenya is shifting substantial ...

Safaricom Plc raised KES 20 billion ($154 million) from the first tranche of its medium-term note programme after investor demand came in at almost three times its initial target.Kenya's largest ...

Kenya is starting the autumn with two corporate bonds that are both more than twice as big as any previously issued in the country. The new bonds will more than triple the amount of outstanding Kenyan ...

MICHAEL JOSEPH, THE chief executive of Kenya’s leading mobile phone company, Safaricom, has a right to be proud. As head of the most profitable company in East Africa, Joseph directs a regional ...

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority has approved eight new collective investment schemes, bringing the total to 57 and pushing CIS assets past KSh 600 billion.

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to lift its 10-year ban on issuing new banking licenses on July 1. This change will open the market to fintechs and digital banks, which is expected to increase ...

Kenya’s plan to raise the minimum capital requirement for banks 10-fold by 2029 may benefit Africa’s largest lender by market value, supporting its ambitions to expand in East Africa’s biggest economy ...

From tech and telcos to retail, investment, banking and e-mobility, these Kenyan leaders are driving capital raises, diversification and fresh strategy. They have mostly worked out of view, but as ...