How Kenyan Banks Lost to Mpesa

Mpesa, a wildly successful payment platform contractually licensed to Safaricom, has prospered at the expense of what would have been banking services. Kenya’s banks have taken a back seat as Mpesa leads the payments market. It wasn’t always like this. Over the past decade, mobile financial services evolved, greatly benefiting from an easy to scale

TIB Bank is Short of Capital

TIB Development Bank that has been licensed by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) to carry out banking business as TIB Corporate Finance Limited is still running short of capital to finance all development projects. The BoT has issued two licences to TIB Development Bank Limited and TIB Corporate Finance Limited, which is a designated Commercial

Chinese Bank Opens Door in Dar es Salaam

The Bank of Tanzania has licensed China Commercial Bank (CCB), to operate in the country bringing to over fifty, the number of financial institutions in the country. According to the Central Bank, (BoT), the new bank has no banking affiliation with another bank in China or Tanzania. The BoT Director of Banking Supervision, Mr Agapiti