Mobile phone lenders bar borrowers over CRB freeze

The Central bank of Kenya, Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Digital lenders will no longer give loans to new customers outside their existing database of borrowers, citing their continued freeze out of the credit reference bureaus (CRB).

Current rules bar the unregulated digital lenders from blacklisting defaulters, and they can only access a borrower’s credit information from a CRB with the express consent of the borrower and Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

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