The two awards from Visa were issued to the Bank for leading in Visa acquired volumes, significantly growing its E-Commerce volumes, and leading in E-Commerce payment volumes.
.@KeEquityBank grew its acquiring business by double-digit to 53% percent YoY, which was attributed to the E-Commerce business, as its processed volume tripled compared to 2020.
The Bank’s payment volume increased to Kshs. 78.12B in 2021, up from Kshs. 51.21B in 2020, while transaction count grew by 21% to 14.08M in 2021, up from 11.68M in 2020.
Visa Vice President and Head of East Africa, Corine Mbiaketcha who presented Equity the awards noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced radical changes in customer behavior, increasing the willingness to engage digitally.
We're happy to have been recognized by Visa as the leader in Acquiring and E-Commerce payment spaces. These awards are an indication of our continued focus on rolling out innovative products that meet the evolving needs of the market, more so during the pandemic - MD Warui
By yesterday afternoon, 2.22pm, the top trending re-tweet in Kenya was that of the social media bigwig @amerix, who had tweeted thus about the departed tycoon-farmer-and-politician Jackson Kibor of Uasin Gishu. - @NationAfrica
There is a reason @amerix, who has become (in)famous on social media for his perceived ‘anti-feminism,’ had capped the word ‘MAN’ throughout his tweet.
Jackson Kibor, 88, had become the unlikely male role model for many Kenyan men — from those half-to-quarter his age — so much so that he was a common social media meme, dispensing advice through implanted quotes (most on “how to deal with women”).
The past 40 years in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been fitful. A UN peacekeeping, Minusca, has been around since 2014, holding a bandage to the country’s wounds. Among the 20 peacekeeping nations, three — Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda — are East African. - @cobbo3
At the end of 2020 ahead of the elections, a rebel group the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), the nth in a long chain, threatened President Faustin-Archange Touadera. He went ahead with the polls and won, and in mid-January 2021 they made a move to kick him out.
An encounter with the peacekeepers, and a bilateral battalion of the Rwandan army, which operates independently and came to Bangui after Toudera called for help as rebels were on the horizon, put paid to the insurgents’ ambitions.
GoK will import 30 percent of cooking gas through the National Oil Corporation of Kenya in a move aimed at controlling the price of the commodity that has hit an all-time high. - @BD_Africa
The @NationalOilKE's quota is aimed at forcing cash-hungry private importers to lower the cost of LPG and ultimately retail prices following the review of regulations that reserve 30% of cooking gas imports to NOCK and carry out its role of influencing market prices.
.@NationalOilKE formed to stabilise and influence fuel prices, has largely been forced to follow the dictates of the market controlled by private players.
Revenues up 13.5% to Kes108.6B
Net interest income up 15.0% to Kes77.7B
Non funded income up by 9.9% to Kes30.9B
Costs up by 11.9% to Kes47.8B from Kes42.8B
PAT up 74% to Kes34.2B from Kes19.6B
Revenue up 13.5% to KShs.108.6B
Total Assets up 15.4% to Kes1.139T
Customer Loans up by 13.5% to Kes675.5B
Customer Deposits up 9.1% to Kes837.1B
NPLs up from 14.7% to 16.5%
Provisions reduced by 52% to close at Kes13.0B fro Kes27.2B
Mzee Jackson Kibor, a prominent businessman-cum-politician from Uasin Gishu county, is dead. He passed away on Wednesday at an Eldoret hospital where he had been receiving treatment. - @NationAfrica
Confirming the news, Mzee Kibor’s family said he had been battling illness since late 2020 and had been using medical oxygen ever since.
In 2017, Mzee Kibor made headlines after an Eldoret court allowed him to divorce his third wife, only months after divorcing his second wife with whom they had been married for over 50 years. He married a fourth wife soon after. His wife died in the 90s.
The UN-backed @GlobalFund has revealed fresh rot at @Kemsa_Kenya after it found out that 908,000 mosquito nets, 1.1M condoms and tuberculosis drugs worth Sh10M had disappeared from its warehouse. - @BD_Africa
.@GlobalFund, which finances the fight against HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, has also raised the red flag over suspected fake suppliers demanding Sh1.66B from Kemsa.
The lost medicines are believed to have been stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists, shining a spotlight once again on @Kemsa_Kenya over its graft record.