Tag Archive: Kenya

• Nov-20-2024

  Kenya – Improved banknotes of 1,000 shillings are in circulation.

  All denominations of the improved notes dated 2024 are already in circulation. The improved family of notes have been printed...

• Aug-8-2024

  Kenya – Improved banknotes.

  The Central Bank of Kenya has announced this week that it will refresh its current banknotes with advanced security features....

• Oct-3-2019

  Kenya – New banknotes wear quickly.

  According to several sources the Central Bank of Kenya is concerned about the quality of its new family of banknotes,...

• Oct-1-2019

  Kenya – Court decides Kenyatta’s monument OK on banknote of 1,000 shillings.

  The High Court dismissed the lawsuit filed to declare the new 1,000 shillings banknote (KES1,000.3) in violation of the Constitutional...

• Sep-29-2019

  Kenya – Comments on demonetization of old 1,000 shilling banknotes.

  Paul Mafula writes today in The Nation that while the demonetization of the old 1,000 shilling banknotes (KES1,000.1 and KES1,000.2)...

• Sep-15-2019

  Kenya – No extension for old 1,000 shillings banknotes.

  Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, has said yesterday the there will be no extension for the...

• Aug-16-2019

  Kenya – Supreme Court Judges to decide legality of 1,000 Shillings new banknote.

  Supreme Court judges visited yesterday the statue of Jomo Kenyatta located in the KICC in Nairobi, to determine whether its...

• Jul-15-2019

  Kenya – Scarcity of new notes reported.

  Commercial banks in Kenya are experiencing a scarcity of banknotes of the new family. Banks are reissuing older notes, which...

• Jun-28-2019

  Kenya – New banknote sizes.

  These are the sizes of the banknotes of the new family issued on 3 May 31: 50 shillings  (KES50.6)  ...

• Jun-12-2019

  Kenya – Banks are required to provided CBK with weekly banknote redemption reports.

  The Central Bank of Kenya has issued a circular addressed to all banks, in which it requires them to report...

• Jun-11-2019

  Kenya – Rules for the exchange of old 1,000 shilling notes.

     THESE BANKNOTES REMAIN IN CIRCULATION UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2019. The Central Bank of Kenya established rules for the exchange...

• Jun-11-2019

  Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda – Repatriation of Kenyan currency suspended.

    The Central Bank of Kenya has suspended the repatriation of Kenyan currency, as part of the process of demonetizing...

• Jun-4-2019

  Kenya – Status of old KES 1,000 banknote

    According to unconfirmed reports it is most likely that the old 1,000 shilling banknotes (KES1,000.1A/B/C and KES1,000.2A/B/C) will become...

• Jun-1-2019

  Kenya – “New generation” notes issued. Older 1,000 shilling notes withdrawn from circulation.

      The Central Bank of Kenya has issued yesterday May 31st its long awaited “New generation” banknotes, without portraits,...

• Oct-13-2018

  Kenya – De La Rue tender restored.

  A three judge Appeals Court panel restored the De La Rue bid for the printing of new notes, which was...

• Jun-26-2018

  Kenya

  De la Rue, who prints Kenyan currency at its factory in Ruaraka, Nairobi, started adding a coat of varnish to...

• Apr-13-2018

  Kenya

  The Central Bank of Kenya plans to appeal to the Supreme Court the decision by Justice George Odunga that nullified...

• Dec-20-2017

  Kenya

  The High Court froze the contract that was awarded to De La Rue for the printing of new banknotes. These notes...

• Nov-25-2017

  Kenya

  Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya declared that the New Generation currency will be issued before the...

• Sep-27-2017

  Kenya

       The Central Bank of Kenya has denied that some photographs of Kenyan banknotes circulating in the social media...

• Sep-20-2017

  Kenya

  The Kenyan Constitution prohibits portraits of persons dead or alive in its banknotes. In 2015 the Central Bank of Kenya...

• Jun-20-2017

  Kenya

  According to an article published in May by Nation, and reproduced by AllAfrica, there is an alternative currency used by...