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Kenyan economy braces for impact after first coronavirus case
By Kepha Muiruri, 1009, March 14, 2020 (EAT)
The local economy is bracing for an unprecedented impact with the first case of the novel coronavirus that was reported on Friday. Economic risks h...

CBK , coronavirus
Genghis Capital ventures into retirement benefits business
By Kepha Muiruri, 2041, March 10, 2020 (EAT)
Local investment bank Genghis Capital has ventured into the retirement benefits industry with the launch of two products motivated by the low pension�...

CMA , Genghis Capital , RBA
CBK to buy 400 million dollars from banks amid global volatility fears
By Kepha Muiruri, 1939, March 3, 2020 (EAT)
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has expressed its intent of growing its usable foreign currency reserves above normal levels by buying US dollars from...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , foreign currency reserves , shilling
Equity, NCBA banks tipped to increase shareholder pay outs
By Kepha Muiruri, 1939, February 18, 2020 (EAT)
Equity and NCBA banks are tipped to be the only listed banks to increase their pay out to shareholders as banks commence issuing their full year earni...

Equity Group , Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) , NCBA
Despite tough talk, Gov’t yet to deliver on planned austerity measures
By Kepha Muiruri, 2022, February 13, 2020 (EAT)
Despite talking tough on implementing far reaching budget cuts, the government has found it tough going to sustain the austerity walk as doubts on fis...

austerity , fiscal consolidation , National Treasury
CBK expected to hold its base lending rate
By Kepha Muiruri, 2052, January 23, 2020 (EAT)
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is expected by large to hold its base lending rate at 8.5 percent in observation of the translation of its last policy...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , Central Bank Rate (CBR)
Banks share prices set for correction
By Kepha Muiruri, 1240, January 22, 2020 (EAT)
Listed commercial banks share prices are set to re-adjust downwards in the near term as the market absorbs shocks emanating from observed investor ove...

banks , Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)
Shilling could weaken if Treasury dumps external commercial loans – Report
By Kepha Muiruri, 2007, January 21, 2020 (EAT)
Analysts at Genghis Capital have raised fresh concerns on the volatility of the shilling should the National Treasury’s plan to stop taking up exter...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , Genghis Capital , shilling
2019 Review: Treasury gets free pass on new borrowing
By Kepha Muiruri, 1131, December 29, 2019 (EAT)
In a complete mirror opposite to his predecessor, Acting National Treasury CS Ukur Yatani threw in the towel on Kenya’s debt sustainability claims. ...

CS Ukur Yatani , Kenya's debt , National Treasury , PFM Act
CBK extends December bond seeking Ksh.9.7 billion
By Kepha Muiruri, 1854, December 17, 2019 (EAT)
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has issued an extended offer of Ksh.9.7 billion to its December Ksh.25 billion bond sale whose auction took place on D...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , government borrowing , treasury bonds
CBK: Shilling has largely been undervalued
By Kepha Muiruri, 1213, December 9, 2019 (EAT)
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has reignited its tiff with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by disapproving the institution’s stance of the sh...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , IMF , Kenyan shiiling
Parliament slashes supplementary budget, seals Ksh.37B deficit
By Kepha Muiruri, 2025, November 27, 2019 (EAT)
The Parliamentary Budget and Appropriations Committee has sealed a Ksh.37 billion hole in the first proposed supplementary budget following amendments...

Budget and Appropriations Committee , National Treasury , supplementary budget I 2019/20
Stanbic firm to keep minority investors in push for more shares
By Kepha Muiruri, 1154, November 23, 2019 (EAT)
Stanbic Bank parent company- the Stanbic Africa Holding Limited (SAHL) (UK) is set to retain its minority investors for at least another year even as ...

CfC Stanbic , mergers and acquisitions , nse , Stanbic Africa Holding Limited
The Ksh.92B hole in Kenya’s budget that Treasury will not tell you about
By Kepha Muiruri, 1642, November 23, 2019 (EAT)
Hidden away in the proposed first supplementary to the 2019/20 approved budget estimates is a Ksh.92.1 billion financing hole whose funding is yet to ...

National Treasury , Public debt , supplementary budget I 2019/20 , Ukur Yatani
Kenya’s budget projections are unrealistic, World Bank warns
By Kepha Muiruri, 950, October 31, 2019 (EAT)
Kenya should initiate realistic budget projections; the World Bank has told the National Treasury. In the latest publication of the Kenyan Economic...

IMF , Kenya debt , World Bank
Safaricom’s NSE dominance extends to derivatives market
By Kepha Muiruri, 1852, October 29, 2019 (EAT)
Safaricom has seen its dominance of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) extend to the recently launched derivatives market to mirror the firm’s ov...

CMA , NEXT derivatives , nse , Safaricom
Inside Treasury’s fresh public debt management strategy
By Kepha Muiruri, 1339, October 14, 2019 (EAT)
The National Assembly granted Treasury the green light to move Kenya’s borrowing ceiling to Ksh.9 trillion last Wednesday igniting the planning mini...

IMF , Kenya's public debt , National Treasury , World Bank
MPs take hard line stand as interest rate capping debate returns
By Kepha Muiruri, 1946, September 11, 2019 (EAT)
Members of Parliament have turned a deaf ear to the proposed repeal of interest rate caps on commercial bank lending. While banks have recently joi...

interest rate caps , KBA , private sector credit
Central Bank’s firefighting breaks Kenya shilling flat-run
By Kepha Muiruri, 1618, August 3, 2019 (EAT)
Central Bank stepped up its open market operations during the week to hold off further slides to the Kenya shilling valuation. According to investo...

CBK , kenyan shilling
Controversy of overvalued shilling: Why Central Banks intervene globally
By Kepha Muiruri, 814, May 14, 2019 (EAT)
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report has ignited the debate on the true value of the Kenyan shilling. This after another study by Amana Capi...

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) , IMF , Kenya Shilling