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Kenya’s Insurance sector is set to face disruption following the launch of a new InsurTech ecosystem seeking to create new solutions to the ailing insurance sector. Over 60 InsurTech start-ups pitched to investors at the inaugural two day Africa 3.0 conference held in Nairobi, as they seek to partner in increasing insurance penetration in the region. According to a new report released by the BaoBab Network, Africa’s InsurTech space is worth US$60 billion but remains largely untapped. The East Africa Insurance Industry has been traditionally focused on the established markets such as life insurance and mining and oil where returns are greater.

New ecosystem to disrupt Kenya’s insurance sector

by Chacha Mwita

Kenya’s Insurance sector is set to face disruption following the launch of a new InsurTech ecosystem seeking to create new ...

Shelter Afrique has urge governments to establish a housing microfinance fund to improve access to housing finance by those in the lower end of the market. Shelter Afrique’s Chief Executive Officer Andrew Chimphondah said most policies had an exclusive urban focus, and non-consideration of the low-income groups and the rural areas. Currently, 90 per cent of Africans cannot afford to buy a house or qualify for a mortgage.Recent reports indicate that more than 60 per cent of sub-Saharan African currently lives in Slums.

How Africa can address housing finance gap

by Chacha Mwita

Pan-African financier that exclusively supports the development of the housing and real estate sector in Africa, Shelter Afrique, has urge ...

Cellulant’s Agrikore platform – an online marketplace for smallholder farmers, agricultural input and produce traders is tapping into Africa’s emerging Agritech market valued at €5.3 billion (US$5.9 billion) according to a new report by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Dalberg Advisors.This comes as 94 per cent of the continent’s emerging Agritech market remains untapped, according to the survey. The State of Digitalisation of Agriculture in Africa 2019 report identifies online marketplace solutions such as Agrikore as significant use cases of how digital tools are being built to tackle major challenges of attracting and retaining a significant number of buyers and sellers, and in thus doing, help to solve the problem of inefficient and fragmented agricultural markets.

How Cellulant is tapping Africa’s emerging Agritech market

by Chacha Mwita

Cellulant’s Agrikore platform – an online marketplace for smallholder farmers, agricultural input and produce traders is tapping into Africa’s emerging ...

Kenya’s Equity Bank has been named as the most ‘Socially Responsible Bank in Africa’ at the most prestigious Africa’s banking and financial sector event – The African Banker Awards 2019. This affirms Equity’s social and environmental leadership on the continent. The award recognises Equity’s initiatives steered through the Equity Group Foundation (EGF) programmes that are positively impacting communities. Through EGF, the bank has had successful initiatives, key among them being the improvement of secondary school education access for 16,168 students under the Wings to Fly program; Financial Literacy training ,clean energy products, agribusiness in Kenya and supporting entrepreneurs in Kenya.

Here is Africa’s most socially responsible bank

by Chacha Mwita

Kenya’s Equity Bank has been named as the most ‘Socially Responsible Bank in Africa’ at the most prestigious Africa’s banking ...

Equiano’s planned route and branching units, from which additional potential landings can be built www.theexchange.africa

Facebook, Google internet to exploit Africa’s online riches

by Njenga Hakeenah

Africa recorded the highest growth in internet users globally between 2005 and 2018

A fish farming project in rural Sierra Leone. Africa’s small-scale fisheries are a potential multi-billion dollar employer, in addition, to playing a critical role in global food security and must be supported by greater research and investment www.theexchange.africa

The untapped billions in Africa’s small-scale fisheries

by Njenga Hakeenah

Liquid Telecom plans to equip 5,000 western Kenyan farmers with the sensors and app by the end of 2019

Investors are keen on new developments at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) as the market opens its counters for derivatives trading. The NSE Derivatives Market (NEXT) futures start trading today with the official launch of the market slated for Thursday, July 11, 2019. NEXT provides new opportunities to investors, enabling them to better diversify their portfolios, manage risk, and deploy capital more efficiently.

All eyes on NSE as futures trading kicks off

by Chacha Mwita

Investors are keen on new developments at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) as the market opens its counters for derivatives ...

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa (L) with Russian President Vladimir Putin www.theexchange.africa

Russia to fight ‘American Protectionism’ from Africa

by Njenga Hakeenah

Russia has been striving quietly to become a major player in Africa starting with diplomatic efforts on African countries the ...

Africa’s economic growth remained defiant despite global slowdown. Africa’s total merchandise trade in 2018 had a value of over USD997.9 billion and the continent remained one of the fastest growing regions in the world during that time www.theexchange.africa

Africa’s defiant economic growth despite global slowdown

by Njenga Hakeenah

Africa’s total merchandise trade in 2018 had a value of over USD997.9 billion and the continent remained one of the ...

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Pan African Software Group appoints new CEO to help in expansion

by Kimani Chege

Software Group, a global software company that provides digital financial solutions with African operations run from Kenya, has appointed Mr. ...

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