Bankers' lobby KBA blames rate cap for 'unintended' slow credit growth

Jared Osoro, KBA's director for research and policy at a briefing on Thursday, October 19, 2017. PHOTO | KEVIN MWANZA | NMG

The interest rate cap has had an unintended effect of slowing credit growth, with demand slackening on the back of a weak economy, a report released by the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) showed on Thursday.

In slightly over a year since the rate caps were introduced, credit has contracted on a month-on-month basis, only growing by 1.7 per cent on a yearly basis

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