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Kenya's parliament on Wednesday passed amendments to its banking act to cap commercial banks' lending rates at 4 percentage points above the central bank's benchmark rate, a legislator told Reuters.
Businesses often complain that high commercial lending rates, often around 18 percent or more, stifle corporate investment. Individuals say high rates put borrowing for home loans, for example, out of reach of many.
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