Category: Economy&Finance
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Kenya’s leading real estate company, Username Properties Ltd., has once again proven its industry leadership after being named Trusted Leading Real Estate Firm in Kenya during the prestigious Pacesetters Awards 2025 held yesterday at the Swiss Lenana Hotel. The recognition celebrates Username Properties’ unwavering commitment to integrity and innovative property solutions that make land ownership…
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PHOTO | File Savings and credit societies in the agriculture value chain are set to secure grants of up to Ksh 1 million to improve production by strengthening their operations. Through a Ksh 57.4 million funding by Migori County Government in collaboration with the National Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (NAVCDP), the initiative targets 40…
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Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru on Wednesday demonstrated her hallmark hands-on leadership, handing over sites and breaking ground for three mega projects in a single day. In a packed itinerary that cemented her image as a leader in control of the county’s transformation agenda, Waiguru presided over the site handover and ground breaking of Kiumbu and…
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Trading at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) this week remained strong with 12, 762 bags of coffee fetching Ksh 847 million. In the weekly auction conducted at Ukulima House, Nairobi, the average price stood at Ksh 53, 206.7 per 50-kilo bag of cherry. Gakuyuini factory, which is part of Thirikwa Farmers’ Cooperative Society (FCS), fetched…
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Senior woman planning for her retirement Planning for a comfortable retirement shouldn’t be a hassle as long as you get the ingredients right. The secret sauce, Alfred Gachaga, the Founder of GRC Apex Consulting, writes, is time. When we were kids, “retirement” looked like a happy old man in a rocking chair.Now? It’s your uncle…
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In the first of this series where The Kenyan Wall Street’s Fred Obura sits with senior executives at Superior Homes, CEO Shiv Arora speaks about achievements, expansion plans, and his vision for East Africa’s leading master-planned real estate developer. I was compelled by the need to create communities, not just houses. Real estate to me…
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Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has begun the process of verifying details of 629 former employees set to benefit from a multibillion-shilling pension payout, after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month closed the final avenue of appeal for the bank. On September 8, Standard Chartered said it is committed to meeting the pension obligations. “We…
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A new national survey has laid bare the economic strain facing millions of households, showing how falling incomes, limited job opportunities and rising costs, made worse by the Finance Bill, are reshaping everyday life. “In looking at these figures, however, it should be recalled that even if the rate of inflation has fallen to under 4%…
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Kenya anchored the French energy powerhouse Rubis’ first-half 2025 performance, powering retail margin gains even as aviation volumes eased. Rubis, which holds 2nd biggest market share in Kenya at 15.96%, also disclosed that its Kenyan subsidiaries sold about €34.7 million (KSh 5.3 billion) of Kenyan government securities during H1 2025, freeing up liquidity that had…
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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has suspended the remittance partnerships of 8 major financial technology and money transfer firms, including fintech giants Flutterwave, Cellulant, and the foreign exchange license of UBA Ghana, citing violations of regulatory guidelines. According to the regulator, the companies breached provisions of the Updates Guidelines for Inward Remittance Services by Payment…