Hustler Fund Stories
Ruto emphasised that it aims to support at least 70 youths per ward across the country by providing grant funding, business training, and market linka...
Known as Lipa SHA Pole Pole or Lipa SHA Mos Mos, the system allows Kenyan households, especially those in the informal sector, to pay their annual hea...
The chairperson of the National Assembly’s Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Bernard Shinali demanded a proper explanation from the PS, qu...
Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Wycliffe Oparanya told the Senate plenary that the system will help recover unpaid loans and ensure the fund benefits m...
Ruto also announced that the government had rolled out a nine-band credit scoring system designed to create formal credit histories for borrowers who...
It was found that the department has no internal information management system to handle loan records, disbursements, repayments, withdrawals of savin...
The Commodities Fund recorded the highest loan defaults, writing off Sh12.36 billion in loans extended to sugar companies.
Findings indicate that thousands of borrowers were either below the legal age of 18 or had not yet been born when the funds were disbursed.
The main aim of the Hustler Fund is to help those in the informal sector transition to the formal financial system, a crucial step for long-term econo...
Susan Mang'eni, the PS for the State Department of MSMEs confirmed that these two million borrowers have achieved higher credit scores by repaying the...
Kenya Kwanza had pledged to set aside Sh50 billion annually for the Hustler Fund, but allocated only Sh20 billion to the fund in its first budget.
Despite the widespread uptake of the Hustler Fund, loan repayment rates have not kept pace, prompting the government to revise the terms of repayment.
The President noted that repaying overdue amounts is key to unlocking enhanced benefits under the newly introduced Bridge Loan programme.
The new Bridge Loan product rewards borrowers who demonstrate good borrowing behaviour with enhanced loan limits and longer repayment terms.
This comes after the government declared plans to recover Sh7 billion from 13 million loan defaulters by targeting their M-Pesa accounts and airtime b...
Further, Nkukuu said many defaulters have the financial capacity to repay their loans, based on their regular M-Pesa transactions.
The Cabinet has also announced the introduction of a third product focused on the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector.
He emphasised that a committee-managed Hustler Fund might have resulted in a significantly different situation.
Seeking to onboard retail and small-scale investors to the bond market, the platform will allow them to acquire government securities for as little as...
The repayment rate for the loan amount is 77 per cent, meaning that at least 11.4 billion is in default.
Muslim leaders had earlier expressed concerns that the Hustler fund is not Muslim friendly.
The President says the fund has saved Kenyans from the predatory lending witnessed on digital platforms, with some denied access to funding in the est...
