Onde, a tech company powering over 200 ride-hailing companies in 70 countries, announces an online edition of Ride.Right.Now - a conference for ride-hailing entrepreneurs. This year’s topic is Hack the Crisis: Business Tips for Post-covid Era. The online event...
More than three-quarters of polled Africans report income falls on COVID-19 Informal and low-income earners hit hardest as unemployment surges in Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa
A five-nation survey by GeoPoll in Sub-Saharan Africa has found...
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and DHL Express have launched HerVenture, a business skills training mobile app for women entrepreneurs, in Kenya. The application was launched with an exclusive virtual launch event that was attended by Cherie Blair...
Global Credit Ratings (GCR), a Johannesburg based agency, has affirmed Kenya Re’s national scale financial strength rating of AA+(KE), with the outlook accorded as stable. Global Credit Ratings (GCR) has attributed the credit ratings to Kenya Reinsurance Corporation Limited...
Open Banking is a global FinTech trend that is revolutionizing the financial services landscape across the world by enabling banks to acquire the skills and tools required to build their own ecosystem through the Open Banking infrastructure.
African banks are...
Darling, Africa’s leading hair extensions manufacturer, has launched the “#SalonTukoSet” program aimed at supporting Kenya’s 25 billion-shillings hair industry meet the newly published guidelines for business operations.
Last month the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development issued a...
Consumers shrinking wallets have sparked drastic shifts in spending, purchasing habits, and routines as they try to cope with the harsh economic effects of COVID 19, a new report by marketing agency SCANAD shows.
Dubbed ‘Understanding the New Normal Consumer’,...
The Kenya Covid-19 Fund Board, in partnership with Equity Group Foundation (EGF), has embarked on the distribution of locally manufactured PPEs to public hospitals for use by healthcare workers dealing with COVID-19 patients. The Ministry of Health has so...
The Board of Directors of Equity Group Holdings Plc, the largest bank on the Nairobi Securities Exchange by market capitalization, has mutually agreed with Atlas Mara (ATMA) to discontinue discussions on the proposed transaction where EGH had expressed the...
Metropol Corporation Limited has developed and launched into the market a ground breakingCOVID-19 Loan Restructure Product to enable Kenyans to engage safely and remotely with their lenders to negotiate loan re-structure terms.
Speaking at the launch of the COVID-19 Loan...
