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Insiders First: How Credit Bank’s Sh1.37 Billion in Loans to Staff and Directors Has Compounded Its Capital Crisis

As the Nyachae-linked lender drowns in a Sh1.64 billion core capital hole, new disclosures reveal it lent more money to its own insiders than the entirety of its regulatory capital base — a governance failure that helps explain why the bank cannot raise the money it needs.

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