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Wetang’ula directs probe into crypto firm’s Kenya operations

The National Assembly Finance and National Planning Committee has been directed to investigate the operations of QVSE, which is offering…

2 weeks ago

Africa’s largest crypto market opens central bank sandbox to stablecoins and virtual-asset firms

The Central Bank of Nigeria announced on Tuesday that applications had opened for the second cohort of its Regulatory…

2 weeks ago

US small businesses: Key facts and public views about small firms

A small-business owner organizes display tables at her yarn shop in Boston. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Most…

3 weeks ago

Why don’t more Americans work for Black-owned firms? Implications for increasing well-being

Summary Black Americans hold much less wealth than white Americans and other groups, as noted in benchmark data from the…

3 weeks ago

Local startups challenge big tech firms grip on Kenya’s digital advertising billions

Suss Ads founder and chief executive Dennis Maina /HANDOUTKenyan technology firms are stepping up efforts to capture a larger share…

4 weeks ago

Real estate, law firms top Kenya’s money laundering risk list

More than half of the firms flagged for higher exposure to money laundering risks are in the real estate and…

4 weeks ago

Kenya targets frontier tech firms in direct partnerships for national AI strategy

Kenya is positioning itself at the center of a new kind of partnership between governments and frontier artificial intelligence companies,…

1 month ago

Kenyan court freezes Burundian firm’s $274,000 in money-laundering case

A Kenyan court has upheld a freeze of thousands of dollars held by a local affiliate of a Burundian engineering…

1 month ago

South Africa firms in Sh413bn swoop on Kenya blue-chips

South African companies are betting Sh413 billion on acquisitions in Kenyan blue-chip firms, seeing them as a platform for a…

2 months ago

Kenya has talent to build big firms, why can’t it own them?

Audio By Vocalize Kenya’s financial and corporate sector.[iStockphoto] Spend enough time around Kenya’s financial and corporate sector, and a…

3 months ago