Money, banking, investment and capital across African economies.
Africa needs capital to finance businesses, infrastructure and jobs. Yet research estimates that billions of dollars leave African economies each year through unrecorded capital outflows. New evidence shows…
Nairobi’s established private-capital market gives Kenya a substantial lead in regional investment activity. Kigali is competing for internationally oriented funds and financial firms, while Uganda and other markets…
Digital lending is growing rapidly as banks cut borrowing costs and bad loans decline. The contest is shifting towards borrowers who can repay, with banks, mobile-money operators and…
East Africa remains one of the world’s most important laboratories for digital finance as its mobile-money superpower rewires commercial enterprise. By The Ledger Africa Editorial Team When Safaricom…
How East Africa’s largest lender is deploying capital, trade roadshows and foreign exchange liquidity to build Rwanda’s industrial export corridor By Napoleon Mugenzi KIGALI — In a high-ceilinged…
A 16.5% surge in gross premiums pushes market size to KSh466.6bn, but margin pressures and geographic concentration remain persistent hurdles. By Our Reporter Kenya’s insurance industry recorded its…
As regulatory pressures and regional rivals trigger a scramble for Nairobi’s commercial lenders, Africa’s largest bank by market capitalisation refuses to pay a scarcity premium. By The Ledger…
When the weather changes, so does the business of risk By Kirimi Mbogo In Tana River, a flood does not arrive as an actuarial problem. It arrives as…
By Our Reporter Sh18.02bn is a large number. It is also an incomplete one. Co-operative Bank of Kenya increased net profit by 28% in the six months to…
By Staff Writer Kenya’s pension industry has accumulated Sh2.83trn. It has also accumulated a rather more awkward statistic: only 7.71m people belong to retirement-benefits schemes, against a working-age…
