Absa Bank Kenya, in collaboration with the German Development Cooperation, has launched a KES 50 Million program aimed at increasing growth and competitiveness of 1,500 women-owned Micro, Small, and Medium Businesses impacted by the Covid-19 economic situation, through blended...
FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), the investing arm of FSD Africa, has today announced a £3m investment into IMFact, an expanding fintech company that uses supply chain financing to provide working capital to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
As a “pooled receivables” factoring...
Family Bank has committed KES 6 billion to extend affordable credit to agribusinesses across 17 counties through the USAID’s Pay for Performance initiative under the Kenya Investment Mechanism program.
This targets businesses across the agricultural value chains such as dairy,...
Bamburi Cement in partnership with Isuzu East Africa, Kenya Transporters Association, and four other organizations have launched a women truckers program dubbed Women on Wheels. The program is a female-centered training and recruitment program seeking to encourage more women...
With over 50 outlets across Nairobi, The Artcaffé Group has now opened its second fully-fledged food market at Raphta Square, Raphta Road Westlands.
The location showcases 8000 sq ft of the Group’s gourmet food store, The Artcaffé Market, making this its signature store....
Gambling is fun and rewarding, and attracts lots of players day after day. Some of them think that when mastering certain strategies and choosing particular games, they are guaranteed to win. But in reality, everything’s different. The most experienced...
Listed agri-business firm Kakuzi Plc has become the first agricultural counter player at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to release its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report today.
The firm, one of the seven agricultural counter players, released its 2020...
EA Sports’ FIFA games have traditionally been announced in September annually, however, due to the pandemic, it had been delayed to early October for FIFA 21.
Since there had been no significant delays this year, FIFA 22 was launched on...
Yunus Social Business (YSB) in a collaborative research project into the social-business landscapes in India, Kenya, Colombia, and Brazil, has identified lack of access to debt and broader non-financial support as the two major challenges to sustainable Social Businesses...
Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) has pledged to work with like-minded partners towards ensuring school-going girls in vulnerable communities have access to quality menstrual health products.
In 2020, DTB committed funding of KSh50 million on a 5-year plan dubbed #AchieveMoreGirl to...
