James Oundo

Kingdom Bank makes Sh. 210 million net profit in three months of 2022

Co-operative Bank subsidiary Kingdom Bank has announced a 58.1 per cent growth in net profit in the first three months of year 2022 to Sh. 209.8 million. In the same period last year, Kingdom had posted Sh. 132.7 million net...

Kenyan gamblers make Sh. 380 billion through SportPesa bets

Kenyans who place bets on SportPesa made Sh. 380 billion between November 2013 and June 2019 with SportPesa bets. This is according to the audited financial statements and management accounts of Pevans East Africa, the company that operated SportPesa for...

Punitive Finance Bill 2022 will kill businesses, destroy livelihoods

Taxes are by far the biggest absorber of wealth in Kenya for businesses and individuals. They should be a tool for progress, but in Kenya, they are aggravating the prevailing slow-down of the economy. These are the words of...

Kenya’s debt repayment to China more than doubles to Sh. 73 billion

Kenya’s debt repayments to China for infrastructure projects has more than doubled to a record Sh. 73.48 billion. This follows the increased clearance of principal sums after the grace period lapsed. According to data from the National Treasury, the amount has...

Revealed: Shocking billions of net profit SportPesa makes

SportPesa has been the second biggest firm in Kenya after Safaricom. This is according to its revealed annual earnings. The betting firm, according to court papers, made a net profit of Sh. 12.9 billion for its owners in Kenya...

Kenyan bank CEOs who pocket up to Sh. 30 million monthly

Bank CEOs in Kenya are some of the highest paid business executives in the whole country. They earn so much that when a mean of their annual is done, some of them pocket an average of up to Sh....

Stock investors to pay Sh. 1.8 billion annually for account maintenance

Dear Investor, Effective 15th July 2022, CDSC will introduce a CDS account maintenance fee of KES 100 per month payable annually. This is the message that stock investors who trade in shares at the Nairobi Securities Exchange have been getting. The...

Government to start controlling Safaricom call charges

Airtel and Telkom have scored big after the government initiated new regulations that will see it control Safaricom call charges. This will be done by controlling how Safaricom charges competitors for terminating calls on its network. The new regulations will now...

NSE loses Sh. 294 billion in 30 days as foreign investors flee

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has lost Sh. 294 billion in the last one month. This follows mass exit from the local bourse by foreign investors. This mass exit has seen the local market fall to a 20-month low. On...

Rigathi Gachagua and the multi-billion money laundering scandal

Rigathi Gachagua, the man Deputy President William Ruto has chosen as his running mate is no stranger to controversy. He has been arrested severally, and is alleged to have masterminded a multi-billion corruption scandal, which he alleges as witch...

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NCBA marks World Environment Day with tree planting at Kamwaki Estate

NCBA Bank joined the world in marking World Environment Day with a renewed call for collective action on ecosystem...