Meet Kenya's Sh30m-a-month bank chief executives

BUSINESS

By Patrick Alushula | 1 hour ago

Safaricom lines up M-Pesa for minors

By Frankline Sunday | 20 hours ago

BUSINESS

The junior version of the M-Pesa app targeting individuals below 18 years will be a first in the country’s fintech sector as the telco moves to beat rising competition.

Cofek takes issue with expressway toll charges

By Paul Ogemba | 20 hours ago

BUSINESS

Transport ministry told it failed to address several concerns raised by the road users. Lobby wants the court to suspend the road’s launch.

Tough times ahead as fuel prices go up by Sh5.50 in new EPRA review

By Macharia Kamau | 1 day ago

BUSINESS

Super petrol will now retail at Sh150.12 per litre in Nairobi, up from Sh144.62. Price hikes attributed to global rise in cost of crude oil against a weak shilling.

Shocker for those who fled Nairobi's high cost of living

BUSINESS

Nairobi’s population growth has slowed to 3.5 per cent between 2009 and 2019. Ongata Rongai has highest concentration of graduates among major urban centres.

By Patrick Alushula | 1 day ago

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Ministry faults LTWP stand on ongoing power tariff negotiations

LTWP, last week, said a reduction of its tariff was out of question as it would have huge implications on its financial health while affecting its ability to meet obligations to its lenders.

BUSINESS

By Macharia Kamau | 2 days ago

Fuel prices go up in EPRA monthly review

BUSINESS

By Brian Okoth | 2 days ago

Fuel prices go up in EPRA monthly review

Expressway opens as Sh9b set aside to reclaim defaced Mombasa road

BUSINESS

By Macharia Kamau | 2 days ago

Expressway opens as Sh9b set aside to reclaim defaced Mombasa road

Auditor reveals NSSF agents collect but fail to remit millions

BUSINESS

By Macharia Kamau | 2 days ago

Auditor reveals NSSF agents collect but fail to remit millions

Mystery of growth amidst pain for households, individual consumers

BUSINESS

By Patrick Muinde | 2 days ago

Saccos to share Sh3.8b Co-op Bank dividend cheque

BUSINESS

By Patrick Alushula | 2 days ago

Saccos to share Sh3.8b Co-op Bank dividend cheque

More than half of counties had opaque budgets in 2021 - study

BUSINESS

By Lydiah Nyawira | 2 days ago

More than half of counties had opaque budgets in 2021 - study

Sh9.7b borrowed weekly on Safaricom's Fuliza

BUSINESS

By Patrick Alushula | 3 days ago

Sh9.7b borrowed weekly on Safaricom's Fuliza

Kenyans gamble Sh463m daily through M-Pesa in sports betting craze

BUSINESS

By Patrick Alushula | 3 days ago

Kenyans gamble Sh463m daily through M-Pesa in sports betting craze

SCI & TECH

Exclusive: Facebook-owner Meta tells hardware staffers to prepare for cutbacks

Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division, a unit at the center of the company's strategy to refocus on hardware products.

By Reuters | 4 days ago

Alternative lending in Kenya

By Sara Okuoro | 5 days ago

Content moderator in Kenya sues Meta over working conditions

By Reuters | 6 days ago

Google faces internal battle over research on AI to speed chip design

By Reuters | 12 days ago

Cryptoverse: More venture capitalists catch crypto fever

By Reuters | 13 days ago

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By Standard Team | 1 month ago

Fuel shortage in Kenya bites

By Macharia Kamau | 1 month ago

Normal fuel supply to be restored this week

By Macharia Kamau | 1 month ago

Juliana Rotich to head Safaricom's fintech integration unit

By Patrick Alushula | 1 month ago

Michael Joseph: This is not the Fuliza I wanted at Safaricom

FINANCIAL STANDARD

Once ailing banks get new lease of life from the industry's 'big boys'

By Patrick Alushula | 6 days ago

How State cushions the rich at the expense of the poor as cost of living soars

By Dominic Omondi | 6 days ago

How oil marketers fanned fuel crisis in key regions

The major fuel shortage experienced in the country in late March and early April had started in the North Rift and Western regions before spreading to other areas.

By Macharia Kamau | 6 days ago

Nairobi chaos chokes top businesses

By Graham Kajilwa | 6 days ago

There's need to redefine the office in hybrid work strategy

By Hoda Younan | 6 days ago

MONEY & CAREERS

Understanding the 9-box grid assessment

The 9-box grid is most commonly used in succession planning as a method of evaluating an organisation's current talent and identifying potential leaders.

By Tony Mbaya | 5 days ago

Why should get professional certificates

WORK LIFE

By Tony Mbaya | 6 days ago

6 skills every employee should learn

WORK LIFE

By Tony Mbaya | 7 days ago

DR PESA

Expanding your business into new markets? Here’s how to

By Pauline Muindi | 1 month ago

Looking to invest? Here’s how not to burn your fingers

By Graham Kajilwa | 1 month ago

Practical steps to nurse finances back to health

By Esther Dianah | 2 months ago

Politics of money: ‘Honey, my money is mine, but yours is ours’

By Graham Kajilwa | 2 months ago

REAL ESTATE

By Paul Ogemba | 5 days ago

The tricks fraudsters use to dispossess you of your land

By Graham Kajilwa | 5 days ago

Student housing drives up land prices in satellite towns

By Peter Theuri | 11 days ago

Buying off-plan: Why it's not all doom

By James Wanzala | 11 days ago

Stanbic in mortgage deal for Sh400m housing complex

OPINION

How multi-sector partnerships spell the future for financial education

Access to healthcare and financial education may, at first, be unrelated but the pandemic has exposed the fragility of the current economic system when skills are lacking.