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Stima Sacco Closes in on Mwalimu Sacco

By Harry Njuguna

Stima DT Sacco has reported steady earnings growth for 2025 as assets rose by Ksh 8.87bn to KSh 75.38Billion, placing the cooperative just behind Mwalimu National DT Sacco’s KSh 76.3Billion balance sheet.

• The Sacco generated profit after tax of KSh 2.22Billion, up from KSh 2.16Billion a year earlier, supported by higher loan income, strong investment returns, and continued growth in member deposits.

• Stima ranks among the sector’s largest institutions by both income and balance sheet scale, with total income exceeding KSh 10 Bn and a loan book of more than KSh 52 Bn.

• Membership has expanded to more than 200,000 members, driving deposit mobilization and loan demand.

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Kenya’s Financial System Liquidity Surpasses KSh6 Trillion for the First Time

By Harry Njuguna

Liquidity in Kenya’s financial system has surpassed KSh6 trillion, with broad money (M3) reaching KSh6.03 trillion in December 2025, the highest level on record. 

• The figure marks a sharp increase in the scale of liquidity circulating through the economy with the broad money rising from KSh3.99 trillion in December 2020 to KSh6.03 trillion in December 2025

• Money supply expanded steadily in 2021 and 2022 before surging sharply in 2023, when broad money jumped from KSh4.53 trillion to KSh5.50 trillion, an increase of nearly KSh1 trillion in a single year.

• Growth then slowed in 2024 before accelerating again in 2025 to push the system above the KSh6 trillion threshold.Continue reading the article here »»»»»

In Africa’s Creative Economies, Women Are Claiming Ownership

By Libby Allen

Each March, International Women's Day fills the calendar with campaigns, flowers, and carefully timed announcements. The day has real historical weight – born from early twentieth century demands for the right to work, vote, and organise. The question it rarely reaches is the one worth asking: not who is being celebrated, but who controls what they have built.

In African creative industries in 2026, that question has instructive answers. They’re economic, not symbolic. And they’re being written by women.

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