Airtel Money Kenya has introduced Bizna Wallet, a dedicated business wallet built to give the country’s small enterprises a clearer picture of their finances. The launch arrives alongside an upgrade to Airtel’s popular Rudishiwa rewards scheme, which now pays customers in cash instead of airtime. Together, the two announcements mark a deliberate push by Airtel to move beyond payments and into the daily financial lives of Kenya’s entrepreneurs. Why Kenyan SMEs Need a Wallet of Their Own Mobile payments have already won over Kenya’s business owners. The Mastercard SME Confidence Index found that 95 percent of Kenyan SMEs now accept…
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Lynet Awino
Lynet Okumu, a Masinde Muliro University graduate, is a digital journalist passionate about impactful storytelling. She writes on health, business, relationships, and daily life, blending accuracy and creativity to craft engaging, informative content.
Kenya will require travellers entering the country to hold mandatory travel health insurance with minimum policy benefits of at least US$50,000, about Ksh6.4 million. Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale set the thresholds in Gazette Notice No. 11492, published on July 29, 2026, under the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023, and the Social Health Insurance Regulations, 2024. “The Cabinet Secretary for Health gives notice that the minimum policy benefits for mandatory inbound travel health insurance shall be as specified in the Schedule below, provided that the cumulative policy benefit limit shall not be less than fifty thousand United States dollars (US$…
SanlamAllianz Life Insurance Kenya has introduced Flexi Future Plus, a savings and life insurance plan built to help Kenyans grow wealth with confidence while protecting the people who depend on them. The product gives customers a guaranteed payout at the end of a chosen term, paired with life cover that keeps a savings goal on track even if the unexpected happens. A Plan Built Around Real Life Goals Flexi Future Plus works as a goal based endowment plan. Customers choose what they are saving for, whether that is a child’s education, a home, retirement or another milestone, and select a…
Stanbic Bank Kenya has started processing Renminbi transactions through China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, giving Kenyan businesses direct access to one of the world’s most important trade payment networks. The move plugs Kenya into the same infrastructure that has already carried more than CNY 8 billion, roughly USD 1.2 billion, in transactions for parent company Standard Bank Group over the past year. Kenya becomes one of six African markets now live on CIPS. Standard Bank Group broke ground in South Africa after the People’s Bank of China approved it in June 2025 at the Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai, the first…
Nairobi does not really separate music from daily life. It plays through lunch breaks, studio sessions, Sunday plans, football nights, and gospel gatherings, threading through nearly every social moment in the city. Spotify’s Greasy Tunes Nairobi, running from 15 to 26 July at Heltz House, took that everyday relationship with sound and gave it a physical home, turning two weeks of programming into one of the clearest snapshots yet of how young Kenyans actually experience music. The platform’s own listening data shows Nairobi has become the most Gen Z driven streaming city on the continent, and Greasy Tunes was built…
Kenya’s shisha lounges got their clearest legal win yet this week. The High Court has struck down the country’s shisha ban as unconstitutional, ruling that the regulations behind it expired years ago and that the government has no lawful basis to keep enforcing them. For bar and restaurant owners who have absorbed nearly a decade of sporadic crackdowns, the ruling offers something rare: a definitive answer from the bench. Justice Bahati Mwamuye delivered the judgment on Tuesday, finding that the Public Health (Control of Shisha Smoking) Rules of 2017 lapsed after the Ministry of Health missed a court ordered deadline…