Tag: Loan Apps
Nigeria Government Shuts Down Okash and Other Loan Apps for Customer Privacy Violations
Digital loan apps have been growing over the last couple of years.
However, over the last couple of months, the apps have been accused of...
Mobile Loan Defaults See A Drop in Mobile Money Subscriptions
Sector stats for Kenya’s telecoms space have been released by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
These are numbers for the first quarter of the...
Why Okash and Debt Of Shame Are Trending on Twitter
Yesterday, Citizen TV aired a news item about online loan apps or digitized loan sharks that have made the life of many Kenyans very...
Play Store Listing Shows Kenyans’ Unhealthy Dependency On Conniving Loan Apps
We have talked about loan apps over an extended period.
These services, typically, are popular because they offer credit without any kind of collateral. But...
Exploitative Loan Apps Deserve A Quick, Painful Death
Are you good with your money? Good for you, you are an anomaly.
The numbers reveal that thousands of Kenyans are listed by the CRB...
List of Digital Lenders Denied CRB Access by Central Bank of Kenya
Yesterday, the Central Bank of Kenya announced that they will bar unregulated mobile-based and credit only lenders from providing information to credit reference bureaus....
CBK to Initiate Tougher Rules On a Mostly Unregulated Digital Lending Platform
A couple of days ago, I was having a chat with a friend about the number of online lenders that have come up after...
