Diversified financial services company Britam has celebrated its 50th anniversary in Nairobi and set it eyes on another 50 years of shaping economic development not just in Kenya but across the region. Britam group’s operations commenced in Kenya in 1965 with the opening of the first office in Nairobi as a foreign branch of British-American insurance company limited, headquartered in the Bahamas. A local company was incorporated on November 14, 1979 as British-American insurance company (Kenya) limited under the companies act as a private limited liability company following a government directive that all branches of foreign owned insurance companies be incorporated locally.