- President William Ruto has scored poorly on economic pledges made during the campaign trail according to a survey assessing his first 100 days in office.
- The National Treasury has ended its domestic borrowing program for the year on a whimper, raising a mere Ksh.10.8 billion against a target of Ksh.20 billion on an infrastructure bond tap-sale.
- Kenya has struggled to meet its quota of sugar imports from the regional market with exporters favouring exports to other countries at favourable prices.
- Beleaguered national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) is in default of Ksh.24 billion in liabilities out of Ksh.44 billion in payables due at the end of October.
- The global popularity of Short Message Service (SMS) within customer communications, remains immensely popular despite the rise of new communication channels, with a 75 percent increase in use in 2022 compared to 2021, a new report by Infobip has revealed.
- The new administration plans to cut the 2022/23 budget by at least Ksh.300 billion lies in limbo from carry-over expenditures from the previous administration.
- Tax receipts as reported by the National Treasury have posted a 7.8 per cent year over year increase in the month of November to Ksh.150.6 billion from Ksh.139.7 billion.
- The US Commerce Department placed 36 Chinese companies including top producers of advanced computer chips on its "Entity List" Thursday, severely restricting their access to any US technology.
- The Standard Chartered Bank Women in Tech program on Thursday awarded 5 participating businesses Ksh1.2 million each in the culmination of the 5th cohort of the incubation program.
- Safaricom has halved pay bill charges as it seeks to incentivise the growth of payments between customers and merchants via its mobile-money platform M-Pesa.
- KCB Group has marked its entry into the DRC market after completing the acquisition of a majority 85 per cent stake in the Trust Merchant Bank (TMB).
- Fuel prices are set to remain unchanged from Thursday as the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) retains maximum pump prices for the December 15-January 14 cycle.
- Non-dealing online foreign exchange trading broker Scope Markets is now set to broker the trading of derivatives at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
- The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is set to close its seventh straight year without an Initial Public Offer (IPO) mirroring the extended listings drought at the bourse.
- Outstanding loans accruing to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have grown by Ksh.175 billion in a year to mirror the outcome of Kenya’s return to concessional lending.
- Most Kenyans are saving to foot the bill for their children’s education going into 2023 according to a new Wealth Expectancy Report by Standard Chartered.
- Nearly eight out of every 10 individual investors in Kenya are self-taught as retail investors lack adequate information to aid in making investments.
- Foreign investors have stayed away from making local investments over jitters in repatriating gains out of the country, a situation brought about by a long simmering dollar shortage crisis.
- Kenyans are prioritizing discounts as they shop ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities, this is according to findings from a consumer survey.
- Shelter Afrique has approached the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) as it seeks the regulator’s nod before issuing a local bond for its housing projects.
- The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has reintroduced charges on transactions between mobile money wallets and bank accounts which had been waived on March 16 2020.