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SMEP finally secures strategic investor

SMEP chairman Nelson Kuria. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

SMEP Microfinance, a church-owned lender, has secured a strategic investor to inject capital and set it on a path for growth after a decade-long search.

Shareholders, in an extraordinary general meeting (EGM), voted for a 51 per cent acquisition by Hope International, a US-based Christian non-profit institution pending regulatory approval in a deal worth $4.6 million (Sh577.8 million).

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