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In today's edition of the newsletter, Family Bank, long a mid-tier lender with regional ambitions, is finally edging toward the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).

Harry Njuguna writes…

Shareholders will vote later this month on a listing by introduction, a move that would allow its stock to trade publicly without raising fresh capital.

For investors stuck in the gray world of over-the-counter deals, the shift promises liquidity and transparency under NSE rules. The bank’s leadership, though, has not closed the door on an eventual IPO.

Profits have been climbing, deposits swelling, and a billion-shilling bet on digital systems signals its determination to join the elite tier of Kenyan banks.

Still, a stubborn pile of bad loans and a wary market hang over the plan, reminders that the path from mid-tier to blue-chip is rarely smooth.

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The Banking Sector Index : Gauging the Pillars of Finance

By Harry Njuguna

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has unveiled a new way of taking the market’s temperature, one that looks squarely at the country’s banks.

Packaged as a sector-specific index, it is meant to capture both the weight of the lenders and the mood of the investors who follow them. The launch arrives after a year in which banking stocks have surged, helping to drive the wider rally in Kenyan equities.

For the exchange, it offers not just a benchmark but the promise of new products and deeper liquidity.

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The Flickering Grid 

By Brian Nzomo

Kenya’s electricity grid is a little steadier these days, with fewer hours lost to blackouts, yet the sense of fragility lingers. The numbers are kinder than before, but they still leave the country lagging behind its own standards and those of its neighbors.

System losses — part technical, part the result of theft— refuse to budge, weighing down a utility that already struggles to cover its costs. Officials are turning again to bulk metering, new partnerships, and ambitious refurbishments of aging lines, gestures that echo past promises.

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Insight 

Kenya is Wasting 40% Of Its Harvest Even as Hunger Bites

By Brian Nzomo

Kenya grows enough to feed itself, yet a staggering share of the harvest never reaches the plate. Grains spoil in barns and fruits rot in fields. Food crops in Kenya are casualties of weak storage, patchy cold chains, and frayed distribution lines. Policymakers call for better data, sturdier silos, and tighter coordination, but the gap between policy and practice remains stubborn. The problem, it is argued, is not production but is the quiet attrition of a food system bleeding from its seams.

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Yesterday's Poll Results

Should Kenya empower the taxman to make banks, payment firms, and even customers collect taxes from foreign tech companies?

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