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Markets
KCB Bank Raises its Base Lending Rate to 15.6%
The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has announced an upward revision of its base lending rate to 15.6% per annum. The…
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Markets
Debt Shaming Cases by Mobile Lenders Down 75% on Fresh Regulations
Cases of harassment and debt shaming by digital lenders have declined following the joint efforts to bring sanity to the…
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Corporate
Metropol Urges Saccos to Submit Data to Boost Borrowers’ Credit Profile
Metropol Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Chief Executive Officer Gideon Kipyakwai, has called upon Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (Saccos) to…
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Credit Score
Why Your Credit Score Matters When Applying for Loan
The practice of sharing credit information among financial institutions was introduced to combat the high levels of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs)…
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Finance
Where lenders source a borrower’s information before loan approval from CRBs
The CRB Regulations, 2020 gazetted by the Cabinet Secretary to the National Treasury on April 8, 2020, introduced major reforms…
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Corporate
Benefits of CIS mechanism to a Kenyan borrower in credit market
The linkage between access to credit and economic development of a country has been made more proficient with the Credit…
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Finance
CBK announces changes on borrower’s credit report in new directive to CRBs
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has announced changes on the Credit Information Sharing mechanism in a bid to allow…
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Finance
How to build your credit score for easy access to cheaper loans
Commercial banks, SACCO’s microfinance institutions, and digital lenders are in the process of transitioning into Risk-based Credit pricing framework as…
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Finance
How risk-based pricing affects your loan pricing
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has been pushing for a risk-based pricing framework to be adopted by the banking…
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News
Economic experts weigh in on Uhuru’s policy for MSMEs access to credit
President Uhuru Kenyatta on October 20 this year ordered the National Treasury and all financial institutions to work out a…
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