Three sectors — trade, real estate and manufacturing — account for more than half (54 percent) of the Sh514 billion bad loans held by Kenyan banks.
Data released by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) on the outstanding bad loans per sector for 11 main sectors in the economy reveal that bad loans in trade increased 10 percent since January to a record Sh109.8 billion at the end of the first half of the year.