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Browsing: Loan default rate
- Non-performing loans in Kenya surged to a 16-year high of 15 per cent in August 2023.
- The Kenya Bankers Association had called for further monetary policy tightening by the CBK, terming it a cure to elevated non-performing loans.
- According to the CBK data, forex pressure cut lending to the private sector to 8.3 per cent during the review period.
The banking sector regulator has said that Kenya’s private sector players resorted to alternative funding sources to avoid the high lending rates, leading to a drop in non-performing loans during the holiday season.
The continued surge in bank interest rates has hit individuals and businesses hard on the back of the Central Bank of Kenya’s (CBK) elevated benchmark interest rate. This has happened thrice since Governor Kamau Thugge took office, citing the need to support the country’s struggling shilling.
On Tuesday this week, the Central Bank of Kenya increased the benchmark …
