Author: David Indeje

Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)  launched the trading of futures contracts on Thursday becoming the second bourse to offer exchange-traded derivatives after South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange. “The newly launched NEXT Derivatives Market will enhance investors’ portfolio performance by availing risk management tools in the wake of increasing asset price volatility in both domestic and international markets,” said the NSE chief executive Geoffrey Odundo during the launch. The Next Derivatives Market, will offer investors index futures contracts on the NSE-25 share index and single stock futures.  This involves the most traded companies at the NSE: Safaricom Plc, Equity Group Holdings, KenGen,…

The Nairobi Securities Exchange Derivatives Market (NEXT) went live on Thursday with the trading of selected indices and single stock futures. This involves the most traded companies at the NSE: Safaricom Plc, Equity Group Holdings, KenGen, KCB Group, East African Breweries Ltd, British American Tobacco Kenya Plc and Bamburi Cement Ltd. The platform will also trade equity index futures before introducing other derivatives like forward contracts and swaps. “NEXT provides new opportunities to investors, enabling them to better diversify their portfolios, manage risk and deploy capital more efficiently,” said the NSE in a statement. NEXT will also enable Kenya to…

Safaricom Plc, Kenya’s biggest telecoms company has said it’s Chief Executive Officer Robert William Collymore died Monday morning after a long battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. He was 61 years old. https://twitter.com/SafaricomPLC/status/1145558372898488320 “It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing away of Robert (Bob) William Collymore, CEO of Safaricom Plc, which occurred at his home in the morning of 1st July 2019,” the firm said in a statement. “He fought this cancer with great courage, with everything he had, and he continued to give leadership to the company, for which we are truly grateful,” said Safaricom Chairman Nicholas…

Digital Lenders Association of Kenya (DLAK) have signed a code of conduct that will help the body to self regulate in the dynamic digital lending landscape. According to the DLAK chairman Robert Masinde, “The rules and regulations that we are planning to adapt are a self-regulation initiative for the benefit of our consumers.” Part of the conduct is to cap initial lending at a maximum of KSh4,000 to customers with no credit history. “Permission should be requested for individual sets of data that the borrower is granting access to. In the case of shared contact networks between borrowers, such as…

More than 650,000 tea farmers will from July start receiving subsidised fertiliser from the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) following the arrival of 50,500 metric tons of fertilizer at the Port of Mombasa. In May, KTDA group chief executive Lerionka Tiampati said they had procured 95,000 tonnes of fertiliser at KSh 3.5 billion. The subsidised fertiliser is supplied through KTDA’s supply programme for farmers’ through a financing deal with Standard Chartered Bank.  The amount of fertilizer that each farmer gets is based on the number of tea bushes they have. On average, one 50kg bag of fertilizer is applied on…

The Kenyan Government, Tullow Oil, Total and Africa Oil Corp have signed agreements for the development of a 60,000-80,000 barrels per day crude oil processing facility for oil discovered in Block 10 BB and 13 T in the South –Lokichar Basin, according to the Petroleum and Mining Ministry. The ministry says the parties have agreed that Amosing, Ngamia and Twiga fields should be developed as the Foundation Stage of the development. https://twitter.com/MadiniKenya/status/1143486642315046912 “The Heads of Term agreements provide a framework and commercial certainty required to move ahead with negotiating the fully termed upstream and midstream long-form agreements ahead of the…