Foreign bank rep office deals rise to Sh240 billion

Unit Bank of Kigali has a representative office in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The value of transactions facilitated by representative offices of foreign banks in Kenya doubled to Sh239.7 billion last year, indicating they are taking a larger role in arranging financing deals in the country.

The banks’ offices mainly facilitated deals in syndicated lending, specialised, project and trade finance, Central Bank of Kenya says in the 2016 bank supervision annual report.

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