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....
Aug-8-2024
The Central Bank of Kenya has announced this week that it will refresh its current banknotes with advanced security features....
Oct-3-2019
According to several sources the Central Bank of Kenya is concerned about the quality of its new family of banknotes,...
Oct-1-2019
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
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
Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, has said yesterday the there will be no extension for the...
Aug-16-2019
Supreme Court judges visited yesterday the statue of Jomo Kenyatta located in the KICC in Nairobi, to determine whether its...
Jul-15-2019
Commercial banks in Kenya are experiencing a scarcity of banknotes of the new family. Banks are reissuing older notes, which...
Jun-28-2019
These are the sizes of the banknotes of the new family issued on 3 May 31: 50 shillings (KES50.6) ...
Jun-12-2019
The Central Bank of Kenya has issued a circular addressed to all banks, in which it requires them to report...
Jun-11-2019
THESE BANKNOTES REMAIN IN CIRCULATION UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2019. The Central Bank of Kenya established rules for the exchange...
Jun-11-2019
The Central Bank of Kenya has suspended the repatriation of Kenyan currency, as part of the process of demonetizing...
Jun-4-2019
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
The Central Bank of Kenya has issued yesterday May 31st its long awaited “New generation” banknotes, without portraits,...
Oct-13-2018
A three judge Appeals Court panel restored the De La Rue bid for the printing of new notes, which was...
Jun-26-2018
De la Rue, who prints Kenyan currency at its factory in Ruaraka, Nairobi, started adding a coat of varnish to...
Apr-13-2018
The Central Bank of Kenya plans to appeal to the Supreme Court the decision by Justice George Odunga that nullified...
Dec-20-2017
The High Court froze the contract that was awarded to De La Rue for the printing of new banknotes. These notes...
Nov-25-2017
Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya declared that the New Generation currency will be issued before the...
Sep-27-2017
The Central Bank of Kenya has denied that some photographs of Kenyan banknotes circulating in the social media...
Sep-20-2017
The Kenyan Constitution prohibits portraits of persons dead or alive in its banknotes. In 2015 the Central Bank of Kenya...
Jun-20-2017
According to an article published in May by Nation, and reproduced by AllAfrica, there is an alternative currency used by...