Top banks protest CBK freeze of new loan interest rates

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Business Daily | by Patrick Alushula

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has frozen a bid by banks to raise the cost of loans following the scrapping of lending rate controls on November 7, 2019, drawing protests from the lenders that are suffering reduced profitability.

The regulator had asked banks to submit new loan pricing formulas that would be the basis of setting interest rates on new credit in an environment where…

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