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The rise and fall of Trade Bank: A tale of the sleazy 90s

Trade Bank depositors queue for a refund of their deposits at the bank's valley road offices in Nairobi in April 1994. [File, Standard]

Integrity Centre, the home of Kenya’s anti-graft czar on Valley Road, once housed a banking empire that spectacularly collapsed in the early 1990s.

Trade Bank had established itself as one of the most innovative and visionary local financial institutions.  

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