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Kenya Commercial Bank Kenya (KCBK) is a subsidiary of the holding of KCB Group (KCBG), the largest banking group in east Africa and leading the market in terms of branch network (360), assets (around USD 9 bn) and customer base (around 22.8 M) with presence in 7 countries: Kenya (HQ), Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi & Ethiopia (representative office).
KCB Kenya is seeking to enlarge its MSME portfolio and to build on its existing support for clean energy, green buildings, and climate-smart agribusinesses projects, helping Kenya meet its climate targets.
The transaction is part of a $150m syndication by IFC, together with SANAD and Symbiotics.
The loan will help expand financing to unique market segments like women and youth-owned enterprises
Joshua Oigara, KCB Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Credit provision to MSMEs
Food security and rural development - Access to credit for rural/agricultural MSMEs and cooperatives
Promotion of gender equality: 2X eligible on three criteria (Leadership, Employment & Consumption)
KCB Kenya is seeking to enlarge its MSME portfolio and to build on its existing support for clean energy, green buildings, and climate-smart agribusinesses projects, helping Kenya meet its climate targets.
The transaction is part of a $150m syndication by IFC, together with SANAD and Symbiotics.
The loan will help expand financing to unique market segments like women and youth-owned enterprises
Joshua Oigara, KCB Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Credit provision to MSMEs
Food security and rural development - Access to credit for rural/agricultural MSMEs and cooperatives
Promotion of gender equality: 2X eligible on three criteria (Leadership, Employment & Consumption)
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Canada, Quebec, Montreal
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| Sep 30, 2025 | Rwanda's High Commissioner-Designate to Nigeria Tasked to Expand Digital Projects | The Senate has approved Ambassador Moses Rugema as the new High Commissioner-designate to Nigeria and called on him to champion the expansion of Rwanda's digital projects across West Africa. Rugema will also represent Rwanda in Chad, Niger,... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | GTBank Kenya is turning post offices into agent banking outlets | GTBank Kenya has rolled out 46 agency banking outlets in partnership with Posta Kenya, in a push to expand beyond its modest brick-and-mortar presence. The lender, which operates just 12 branches in Kenya, said the first phase of its agency... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | Kenya's Energy Future: Solar Powers Millions | Kenya's energy landscape transforms. A major financial milestone arrived. Sun King, a solar energy leader, completed a $156 million securitization. This landmark deal fuels widespread clean energy access. It targets 1.4 million low-income h... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | Sun King Secures $156 Million to Expand Clean Energy Kenyans | Sun King, a leading provider of off-grid solar energy solutions, has successfully closed a $156 million (KES 20.1 billion) securitization deal to scale affordable solar access across Kenya. This landmark transaction is the largest of its ki... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Kenya’s 12 highest-paid CEOs at the Nairobi Securities Exchange | In 2024, the pay gap between Kenya’s corporate boardrooms and ordinary workers widened further. Bank executives continued to dominate the top of the earnings pyramid, with the country’s highest-paid CEOs taking home hundreds of millions of ... |
| May 14, 2025 | MTN’s BankTech disburses $592 million in Q1 loans amid rising credit demand | BankTech, the digital lending arm of MTN Mobile Money unit, disbursed a record $592 million in loans in Q1 2025, according to MTN Group’s financials, its highest since launching in August 2023. The surge highlights growing demand for microl... |
| May 12, 2025 | Access Bank, ABC top five lenders risking CBK penalties for raising loan rates | Access Bank Kenya and ABC Bank top the list of commercial banks risking penalties from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for raising lending rates despite warnings from regulators to align loan pricing with benchmark rate cuts. The two banks ... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Safaricom secures insurance licence after a four-year wait | Kenya’s biggest telco Safaricom has secured an insurance licence from the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA), ending a four-year wait. The company will now offer insurance services to its M-Pesa users with a new product, Bima, its CEO Pet... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Verve hits 70 million payment cards in Nigeria, consolidates market leadership. | Lagos, Nigeria, 15 October, 2024: Verve International, Africa’s 1st and largest domestic payments scheme, and an emerging reference-point in the burgeoning realm of domestic payment schemes globally, has again announced another remarkable n... |
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FAQ about KCB Kenya
What has the press written about KCB Kenya?
Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning KCB Kenya, among them “Rwanda's High Commissioner-Designate to Nigeria Tasked to Expand Digital Projects” (Sep 30, 2025) and “GTBank Kenya is turning post offices into agent banking outlets” (Sep 10, 2025).
Is KCB Kenya still active?
KCB Kenya is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 11, 2026.