Georgetown’s Students for Middle East Peace hosted a day-long conference to discuss peaceful resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to foster dialogue with people from various colleges ...

Church-owned microfinancier SMEP Bank is set to upgrade its banking system to enable mobile phone-based lending. The firm will also start lending to Safaricom’s #ticker:SCOM M-Pesa agents so that they ...

SMEP Microfinance, a church-owned lender, has secured a strategic investor to inject capital and set it on a path for growth after a decade-long search. Shareholders, in an extraordinary general ...

Church-owned microfinance bank, SMEP, has reported a full-year loss of Sh937,000. The performance was an improvement from the previous year’s Sh97 million loss, which prompted a change of the lender’s ...

SMEP has faced capital and liquidity challenges for over a decade, making it difficult to invest in new business models. The acquisition therefore, is expected to strengthen the firm through injection ...

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