Banks open loan restructuring as higher rates raise defaults

Customers at a banking hall. FILE PHOTO | NMG

East Africa’s retail banks have disclosed measures, including loan restructuring to cushion borrowers from the prevailing hard economic conditions precipitated by rising interest rates and inflation across the region.

The lenders which are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange have freely reverted to the Covid-19 debt relief measures that include loan repayment moratoria to bail out struggling households and businesses.

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