Draft provisions, consultations and appointments: read before a final rule exists, so operators know what is actually changing.
Microsoft’s October 2026 shutdown of its Nairobi engineering hub puts hundreds of senior identity, cloud, and security architects onto an open job market cluttered with fake recruiters. FINTAK’s Talent Exchange gives those engineers and Kenyan financial institutions a verified rail to connect, backed by 97 free candidate verification waivers and monthly hiring credits for member firms.
Economy, Labour, and Worker's rights · 1 Nov 2026 · 7 min read
Kenya’s banks are buying AI to make decisions their 20,905 managers and supervisors already make. Those experienced staff are the cheapest way to make the tools work, and their grades lost 527 people in 2025.
First Reading · 30 Oct 2026 · 9 min read
Kenyan law already forbids refusing a loan on a credit score alone, and the data regulator’s draft guidance sends a contested automated decision to a person with authority to change it. A board should be able to name who can stop a decision for one customer, for a group of customers and for the whole system, and show that each has the authority, the information and the time to do it.
Digital Lending · 29 Oct 2026 · 12 min read
For Eva Ngigi-Sarwari 🕊️
Thought Leaders · 21 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
For Raila Amolo Odinga, one year on.
Kenya we want · 16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Buzzwords don’t make a company sound smart. They slow meetings, blur decisions and drive away customers and staff. Here is how to spot the four strains of jargon monoxide, and how to clear the air.
Africa Business Stories · 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
Kenya built one of the world’s most sophisticated mobile-money systems, then somehow decided the best way to prove a digital payment was to hand a stranger your phone and let them inspect the evidence. Safaricom’s Jumbe finally makes that ritual less invasive. We applaud them. This was probably a mistake, because now that we know they can remove absurdities from everyday payments, wananchi have several more assignments.
Payments · 7 Oct 2026 · 17 min read
Kenya can still seek court orders against harmful online material. The High Court rejected a separate power that let a state committee make an entire website or application inaccessible without first going to court.
Policy & Regulation · 29 Sep 2026 · 8 min read
John Kibunga Kimani spent nearly a quarter of a century building his Kakuzi stake from 1.78% to 33.53%, becoming its largest directly registered shareholder and eventually winning a seat on the board of the company where he says he once worked as a boy. His accumulation has long carried a stated concern for workers and neighbouring communities. Now a dispute over 3,200 acres places that language of obligation alongside the duties of a director and major shareholder defending the company’s property and shareholder interests.
Investor Corner · 25 Sep 2026 · 13 min read
Joram Mwinamo has spent two decades helping African entrepreneurs turn founder-led businesses into stronger institutions, culminating in SNDBX, a network that brings more than 30 professional disciplines around a single enterprise. As the model expands from Kenya into Ethiopia and the US, its next test is increasingly familiar to the founders it advises. Can SNDBX coordinate its experts, prove measurable results for clients and build enough leadership depth to work just as well when Mwinamo is no longer in the room?
CEO Spotlight · 21 Sep 2026 · 14 min read
M-PESA has become so reliable, familiar and deeply woven into everyday life that Kenya rarely stops to ask what happens if the bridge everybody uses suddenly closes. A hypothetical seven-day outage turns that question into a very Kenyan comedy of cash shortages, stranded payments and improvised solutions, while exposing a less amusing truth about what happens when an economy becomes too dependent on one payment rail.
Payments · 20 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
The High Court has ordered Kenya’s 15% Safaricom stake restored to the State after finding that the KSh204.3 billion sale to Vodacom failed constitutional tests on public participation and transparency. Reversing the trade now means unwinding ownership, money, dividends and transaction costs, while confronting a harder lesson for future privatisations. A public asset should not be transferred before the legal authority to sell it is settled.
Policy & Regulation · 15 Sep 2026 · 12 min read