Banks step up push for review of interest capping law

StanChart CEO Lamin Manjang speaks at the Euromoney Kenya Conference in Nairobi on May 9, 2017. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

Commercial banks on Tuesday continued their onslaught on the rate capping law, insisting interest controls have defeated the objective of providing affordable credit to consumers.

Industry lobby Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) chairman and Standard Chartered #ticker:SCBK regional chief executive Lamin Manjang told the ongoing inaugural Euromoney Kenya Conference that rate caps had led to a vicious cycle featuring job losses and contraction in credit.

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