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MPs uphold rate cap law, scrap interest on savings

The law capping interest rate charged on loans is likely to be retained in its current form, after all.

This is after the National Assembly’s Finance Committee dropped its earlier decision to amend the Finance Bill, 2018 to require banks to calculate interest based on the now-defunct Kenya Banks Reference Rates (KBRR).

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