Telecommunications giant Safaricom touched a new all-time high of Sh16.10 in intra-day trading on a volume of 6.6 million shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) which was launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2009, becoming the eighteenth member of the SSE worldwide and the fourth in Africa alongside the Egyptian Exchange, the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Pan African Insurance Holdings has announced the successful acquisition of a controlling stake in Gateway Insurance Company Limited from minority owners.

A list of seven stockbrokers and three banks to play a central role in broadening capital markets to higher risk assets has been unveiled.