03/28/2022

Zenith Bank: Beating Market Expectations

The Group’s continuous drive for retail deposits combined with the strategic rebalancing of its funding base helped to reduce the cost of funding from 2.1 per cent to 1.5 per cent in the current year.

03/27/2022

Kenyan banks record meteoric surge in profits

The one-year window through which the lenders had extended and restructured the loan repayments for customers adversely impacted by the pandemic expired on March 2, 2021 and the borrowers were given three months to regularise their loan repayments.

03/25/2022

Nigerian lender GTB sets sights on Kenyan bank

The Nigerian banks reckon they will ride on the billions of dollar flows in annual trade between Nigeria and Kenya to gain market share, a pointer that it targeting trade finance.

03/21/2022

KCB Group courts DRC bank in expansion plan

The Group’s net profit for 2021 jumped 74 percent to Ksh34.2 billion ($300 million) from Ksh19.6 billion ($171.92 million) in the previous year (2020) buoyed by increased revenues from trading operations and by over 50 percent reduction in loan loss