Laws and Regulations
The Sacco Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2018
The Sacco Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was gazetted on 19th January 2018 for placement before the National Assembly. The objective of this Bill is to amend the Sacco Societies Act, 2008, to provide for the registration and licensing of Sacco societies as deposit-taking savings and credit co-operatives. The Bill further expands the current credit information sharing mechanism to include Sacco societies with other licensed financial institutions. This is intended to align the Act with the Banking Act, the Microfinance Act, 2008, thus bringing credit information sharing under a single regulatory framework. Under the proposed amendment, Sacco societies will be mandated to …
Draft CIS National Policy
Kenya has never had a formal CIS policy. This paper is the first attempt to do so. Thus, while this Policy Paper is mostly a response to current developments, the failure of a formal policy, from the outset, has had repercussions. For example, despite global best-practise encouraging the sharing of positive and negative data, Kenya started out sharing negative credit data only. Read more.. …
A New Era in CIS Digest
In this digest, we feature articles on the CIS Learning Centre, Daily Submission and a summary of Data Specification Template version 4, RegTech-a conversation we will hold at the 5th Regional CIS Conference 2020 and an opinion piece on Google’s advertising policy on short term loans. Read the digest here …
Data Protection Act, 2019
The Data Protection Act was enacted in 2019. Members of CIS Kenya have been provided with summary of requirements as well as the roles each of their department is expected to take to ensure compliance. Members are encouraged to read and understand the full Act to ensure they are protected from legal risks that may arise on non-compliance. link …
Interest Rate Ruling-Petition_413_of_2016-Interest Cap
This is the ruling determining the constitutionality of the interest rate cap that was effected in 2016. Download the Petition_413_of_2016-Interest Cap …
April 2019 Digest
In February 2019, the Government of announced the Launch of ‘Huduma Namba’ a National Integrated Identity Management System. The purpose of the portal is to be a master population register, applicable to all residents of Kenya: foreign and citizens, which enables one to be identified using a single reference number in order to access government services. Its registration was rolled out on a pilot basis in select counties across the nation… Read more …
4th Regional CIS Conference Report
The explosion of mobile lending is severely limiting human interaction, and causing social apprehensions (such as over-indebtedness) and data protection concerns. On the other hand, the emerging disruptions are successfully promoting a cashlight economy and challenging traditional approaches to KYC, probability of default, and changing the dynamics of access to finance. On their part, risk managers are inquisitive about effectiveness of emerging risk assessment models and their integration with traditional scoring methodologies while policy makers are concerned about implications on consumer protection and financial sector stability. The 4th CIS Regional Conference was organised to shed light on some of these …
CREDIT REFERENCE BUREAU REGULATIONS, 2013
The Credit Reference Bureau Regulations, 2013 operationalise Section 31 of the Banking Act and Section 34 of the Microfinance Act. Through this Commercial and Microfinance Banks are mandated to submit both Positive and Negative information on the performance of the credit facilities extended to its customers. Download the CREDIT REFERENCE BUREAU REGULATIONS, 2013 …
THE MICROFINANCE (DEPOSIT- TAKING MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 2008
The Microfinance Regulations were released to operationalise the Microfinance Act (2006).The regulations prescribe how licensing of the Microfinance Institutions is to be conducted, how to provision, classification of credit facilities and many other on conducting the microfinance business. Download THE MICROFINANCE (DEPOSIT- TAKING MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 2008 …
