Dollar investors at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) have seen their returns rise over the past one month on the back of a favourable exchange rate environment, lifting the gloom brought by negative returns last year.

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has become the first financial sector regulator to allow use of the driving licence as an official identification document.

Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) posted a 15.6 per cent growth in after-tax profit for the year ended December 2015, helped by higher income from lending and transactions.

Kenya’s Equity Bank Group has posted a 0.6% increase in full-year 2015 Profit After Tax of KES 17.3 Billion from 2014’s KES 17.2 Billion.