Today’s Top Highlights:

🔥📉 Insurers Face Payout Surge After Protest Looting

One year after 2024’s deadly demonstrations, insurance firms are once again staring down billions in claims as riots return. Fire & property damage payouts more than doubled last year — and 2025 could get worse.

⚖️🏛️ Court Rescues Civil Servants' Club & Membership Perks

The High Court reverses Treasury’s decision to halt funding for professional subscriptions. From lawyers to engineers, public servants win big — with Justice Aburili calling the move “unconstitutional and consultatively flawed.”

🚀💰 Stanbic Bank Targets Sh13B to Fuel Kenyan Startups

Stanbic, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, plans to raise Sh12.9 billion to scale early-stage companies in agribusiness, edtech, health, and creative arts. Its Catalytic Fund promises “patient capital” where banks usually say no.

📈🌍 NSE Gains Sh21B Despite Street Protests

While the city burned, the market rallied. Safaricom stock surged to a Sh16B gain, fueling an overall Sh21B boost in NSE investor wealth. Foreign buyers returned strong, snatching up blue chips in the midst of political turmoil.

⚡🇰🇪 Kenya Overtakes Uganda in Energy Regulation Rankings

Thanks to reform-driven transparency at EPRA, Kenya now ranks 2nd in Africa (behind Senegal) for electricity regulation. Uganda, which led since 2018, has been dethroned as Kenya becomes the new energy reform poster child.

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📉 🏦 Equity Bank Seizes EA Cables & TransCentury — Sh14B Wiped Out

Big names like Kuramo Capital, Eddy Njoroge & Peter Kanyago suffer massive losses as Equity Bank swoops in on Sh4.7B loan defaults. Shares suspended. Retail investors trapped. What’s next after this high-profile financial collapse?

✈️ 💰 KQ Delays Sh142Bn Debt Repayment — Strategic Investor Missing

Kenya Airways signals it won’t service loans to banks, the State, or foreign lenders until a new equity investor injects cash. With Sh142.7 billion at stake, we unpack what this means for national debt — and the skies.

🧾 🔥 Ruto’s Budget Cut Promise Implodes — Sh176B Spent Instead

Despite his austerity pledge, the government’s recurrent budget has grown by Sh176 billion through multiple supplementary budgets. A spending spree in disguise? We break down the political and economic fallout.

🏚️ ⚖️ NBK Fined Sh711M Over Illegal Land Sale in Botched Sugar Deal

In a landmark ruling, the High Court orders National Bank of Kenya to pay Sh711 million for selling land it had no business touching. A win for borrowers — or just the beginning of more exposés?

⛽ 💸 National Oil Gets Sh3.38Bn Bailout — Again

The Petroleum Development Levy is tapped to rescue National Oil Corporation — repaying KCB and settling old fuel supplier debts. Is this good fiscal management or another example of selective bailouts?

💵 📊 Treasury Opens Sh50Bn Bond Sale to Start New Year Borrowing

CBK reopens 20- and 25-year papers with attractive coupons of 13.2% and 13.4% — but will it be enough to plug the Sh923B fiscal hole? Full bond breakdown inside.

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Billionaire Burnout: TransCentury & EA Cables Crash

Kenya’s top investors — including Kuramo Capital and industry veterans like Peter Kanyago and Eddy Njoroge — are staring at a massive Sh14 billion wipeout after Equity Bank’s takeover. With shares suspended and value vaporized, we break down what this means for retail investors, capital markets, and policy.

🏦 🚨 NBK Ordered to Pay Sh711M in Land Scam Ruling

In a rare win for borrowers, the High Court slams National Bank of Kenya with a Sh711 million penalty for selling client land illegally in a failed sugar trade deal. Could this trigger a legal precedent for future borrower protections?

📉 🇰🇪 Ruto’s Budget Cuts Reversed by Sh176B Overruns

Despite pledging austerity and spending control, new reviews reveal budget expansions instead of cuts — fueling doubts on the government’s fiscal discipline, especially after Gen Z-led protests last year.

⛽ 🛢️ National Oil Gets Sh3.3B Bailout

The cash-strapped National Oil Corporation of Kenya gets a Sh3.38 billion rescue from the Petroleum Development Levy to repay old debts to KCB, Dalbit, and Gulf Energy — but is this a bailout or more budget bloat?

📊 📈 Treasury Eyes Sh50B From New Bond Issue

Kenya kicks off its 2025/26 borrowing campaign with a Sh50B bond tap. We unpack the coupon rates, maturity timelines, and how this fits into the Sh923B fiscal deficit.

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