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Why banks will beg for your deposits

Kenyans have a huge opportunity to set the price of their savings as banks, desperate for cash, lure deposits in a market with very competitive options. Deposit rates have jumped to 7.8 percent in June, a five year high as Banks scrambled for investors to deposit money in their accounts to facilitate their fractional lending. Fractional Banking is a banking system that requires banks to hold only a portion of the money deposited with them as reserves. The banks then use the customer deposits to make new loans. For a long time Banks have been holding the upper hand given the healthy supply of money…

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EconomyNews

Banks exposure to GoK debt cut to a decade low

Local Kenyan lenders are holding the smallest portion of state debt in almost ten years as banks dump government securities on rate hikes, heightened risk of default and the possibility of restructuring. Central bank data shows the portion of domestic debt held by banks stood at 45.64 percent in April down from 54.8 percent in June 2020.   The last time banks held less than 50 percent of domestic debt was 49.4 percent in March 2014, and have been accumulating risk free state debt over the decade, (especially during the rate cap era) to a high of 57.8 percent in July 2015. Kenyan banks hold Kes2…

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