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Kenya pension funds shift Sh105bn offshore to cut domestic market risks

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- Kenyan pension funds are moving more retirement savings into global markets, with offshore holdings rising 25 percent in the year to June,2026 to hit Sh104.99 billion as managers ... Read More


5.4 billion litres on paper. So where is the milk?

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- Kenya has a milk problem, and it is not simply about empty shelves. The more troubling problem is that the shelves appear to be telling a very different story from the Government'... Read More


The dimensions of sustainability governance for an organisation

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- An organisation's governance and leadership team plays a crucial role in the success of its sustainability implementation journey. The governance team's ability to lead and direc... Read More


Treasury cashes in on a bigger pool of idle State cash

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- A growing pool of public funds invested in interest-earning government securities is boosting the Treasury, even as it targets a total of Sh987.4 billion from the domestic market ... Read More


CBK moves to rein in 'too important to fail' banks

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- Top banks, including Equity Group, KCB Group, NCBA Group, Co-operative Bank and I&M Bank, face a shakeup in their expansion plans as the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) moves to shiel... Read More


Where are decent software developers?

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- In case you're new to this column, let me warn you: I don't do polite. I nitpick, I rant, and I gnash my teeth about the absurdities of corporate governance, farming in Laikipia, ... Read More


More than electricity: What your token is really paying for

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- In Kenya, the energy transition arrives on a phone screen as a 20-digit number. That number is what a growing number of households see when they buy prepaid electricity. And as th... Read More


Africa needs AI that serves its priorities

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- Across Africa, the most consequential uses of AI do not look like a chatbot. They look like a forecast that warns a nutrition team months before a crisis, a satellite map that sho... Read More


Regulating Kenya's too-big-to-fall banks right step

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- The collapse of a bank is never merely a corporate event. For a bank that is large, interconnected or critical to the economy, failure can quickly become a problem for depositors,... Read More


How Omari made his luck, from Eastland's tarmac pitches to Absa corner office

Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- For Yusuf Omari, the journey to the CEO's office never started with a grand career plan. He was simply a boy from Umoja spending his afternoons on Eastlands' tarmac football pitch... Read More