Equity Group Holdings CEO and MD James Mwangi has been appointed to the Columbia Global Centers-Nairobi Advisory Board. According to the institution, experience in the region, as well as wealth…

Equity Bank has rolled out “EazzyFX” an online forex trading platform in a quest to provide SMEs and Corporates freedom and control over their trading, as well as allow access…

As someone who has been using PayPal for almost ten years now, the announcement this morning that Safaricom has made a deal with Paypal and TransferTo to enable movement of…

The year 2017 will probably be more associated with the forth-coming general elections in Kenya and whatever will happen thereafter but this is also the year M-PESA turned ten.  M-pesa…

Among all the services that Equity provides in the diaspora, PayPal tops the list since it accounts for about 70% of these. PayPal recently underwent an upgrade which saw the…

Kenyan banks are, in two months, expected to compile and file detailed reports with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) on their approaches to tackle threats to cyber security. The…

Equity Bank announced its first quarter earnings today, reporting a reduced profits by 5%. In the first quarter of last year’s financial period, the bank reported a pretax profits of…

Pesapal, a Kenyan-based e-commerce platform, has announced the integration of American Express into its payment platform. The integration took place on 27th February, 2017. This means that American Express card holders…

Equity Bank is putting on hold the Eazzy Plus Loans. Eazzy Plus Loan was attractive due to the fact that consumers could apply for loans payable in two months to…

Of the challenges faced by online businesses in Kenya including warehouse logistics, ontime delivery nightmare, and risks associated with cancellation of orders, payment methods top the list. Most Kenyans do…

Equity Bank is keen in making the banking experience of its customers for appealing. It is because of this reason that on Tuesday, 11th October, 2016, the bank announced that…

Every single mobile service provider in Kenya offers a mobile payment service. Safaricom are the pioneer’s in this segment with their M-Pesa platform. The other Telco’s saw how impressive this…

Hivos East Africa, Equity Bank Kenya, and the Association of Fashion Designers of Kenya (AFAD) have released the findings of a study that was commissioned by Hivos to analyze the…

Equity bank has decided not to continue with its regional expansion plans it had announced last year. The bank will henceforth invest on the existing markets. Initially, the bank had…

Sometime back while in Kisii town, I went to a KCB machine to get some money but the ATM was not working. While coming out I met a lady who…

Following calls by the Kenyan government for financial institutions to allocate entrepreneur seed funds, Kenya Commercial Bank has pledged sh1 billion towards the support of start-up ideas and innovations. The…

Credit cards have become part of our lives, much like the way social media has meandered its way into the very intimate corners of your lives. Did you know that…

Sometime last year PayPal came to Kenya through partnership with Equity Bank. For the regular users of PayPal, this was a great news. The reason being for a long time…

I’m sick and tired of Safaricom’s M-PESA. I don’t want to receive neither do I want to send money via M-PESA; and I bet there are a significant number of Kenyans…

Customer care service by Equity Bank is great, actually so great that when my account lay dormant for several months they took their time to give me a call, not…

It’s been a month since I told a close friend of the plan Equity Bank has on mobile money business yet the excitement I saw in him is still very…

Equity Bank’s newly acquired Mobile Virtual Network may just have a cut in its transaction costs by at least a half, being Kenya’s second most profitable bank. The newly acquired…

It is sad to read the news that Yumobile’s plan to exit the Kenyan market is at an advanced stage. Equally sad is the news that Orange is working on…

Safaricom, Equity bank and Nakumatt are the likely future owners of Essar’s Group YU mobile following an application to the Communications Commission of Kenya by the telco to sell infrastructure…

Microsoft in collaboration with Intel Corporation East Africa and the Kenya Private School Association has launched 4Africa youth device program in a bid to provide the education sector a bundle…