CMA Issues New Corporate Governance Code and Guidelines on AML
On 9th March, 2016 Kenyan Capital markets Authority published the newly gazetted guidelines that seek to stem poor corporate governance on bourse listed companies as means of protecting investors.
The authority also issued a related...
U.N. Security Council Votes for tougher Sanctions on North Korea
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voted unanimously for toughest sanctions against North Korea after its recent nuclear and missile tests on 6th January 2016.
The sanctions seeks to block all imports of materials...
Land Bill enters second reading amid calls to fast track Constitutional pending bills
Kenyan's National Assembly spent the better part of Tuesday afternoon discussing the long awaited Land bill. The bill is one of the legislation stipulated as necessary in the implementation of the Constitution, 2010.
The bill...
Can 10,000-character tweets boost Twitter’s flatlining user growth?
By Felicity Duncan,
On January 5, Twitter founder and recently reappointed CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to confirm a story on Re/Code claiming that the micro-blogging site is planning to change its signature feature: the 140-character...
Guilty or Not Guilty – Waiguru denies ever meeting NYS Scandal suspect
While most of Kenyans thought the ghost after former CS Waiguru has been exorcised, it has glared its head again and the fire may not die out soon. This may seem like a bad...
Was there ever a time when so few people controlled so much wealth?
By Eoin Flaherty,
Oxfam’s latest report claims that income inequality has reached a new global extreme, exceeding even its predictions from the previous year. The figures behind this claim are striking – just 62...
Has the Jubilee government abandoned the Konza City idea?
Konza city, a technopolis plan designed as part of the 2030 vision flagship projects, seems to have stalled or rather, we hear less of it since the swearing in of the current regime.
China’s stock market is in for a turbulent 2016
By Michele Geraci
The Shanghai stock market has had a rough start to the New Year. Bourses are down and trading was halted on its opening day after the market plunged, triggering the new circuit-breaker...
How closer is Kenya to achieving vision 2030?
Rebasing of the GDP indices moved some countries in Africa into the middle income economies. Kenya and Nigeria reviewed their measures placing both countries in the light weigh economies.
Fastjet jets in Kenya
The battle lines are already drawn in the aviation industry in Kenya with entry of wholly owned subsidiary of Fastjet Plc of UK
The entry of Fastjet airline into the Kenyan airways marks unprecedented battle...