Lenders snub SME loan seekers on Covid jitters

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Business Daily | by Otiatio Guguyu


A quarter of small businesses seeking loans were turned away by lenders last year on the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic that sparked fear of defaults leading to risk averseness.

A Central Bank of Kenya study showed that banks turned away 28 per cent of small businesses while microfinance declined 96 percent of the loan applications made to them…

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