Foreign investors snap up 5 local microfinance banks

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A Smep branch in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | POOL

Loss-making microfinance banks (MFBs) have given foreign investors who want to tap into Kenya’s lucrative financial sector a major window for entry after a moratorium on licensing new commercial banks locked out new players.

Tight liquidity has seen most of MFBs, or microfinance institutions allowed to collect money from the public, struggle to mobilise deposits.

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