Devisenmarkt Kenia

 

Kenya's Treasury said the switch aims to hedge against US dollar volatility and align repayment flows with Chinese import and project spending, which are largely yuan-denominated. The currency swap immediately reduces near-term debt-service costs....

Kenya's Treasury said the switch aims to hedge against US dollar volatility and align repayment flows with Chinese import and project spending, which are largely yuan-denominated. The currency swap immediately reduces near-term debt-service costs....

Kenya has successfully converted the currency for a railway loans from China into yuan, which it expects will save it $215 million annually in debt servicing costs, according to Treasury Secretary John Mbadi....

Apart from lobbying Beijing to convert the loan into yuan, Kenya hopes to generate $4bn by securitising a levy on imports to finance a planned extension of the China-built standard gauge railway (SGR)....

Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Ltd.'s first-half profit declined by a fifth after income from foreign-exchange trading plunged and from loans dipped....

Kenya is in talks with China to convert dollar-denominated debt the East African nation owes its biggest bilateral lender to yuan and extend the repayment period, Treasury Secretary John Mbadi said....

The governments of Kenya and Japan agreed on the terms of a yen loan after earlier plans for a Samurai bond were shelved....

Kenya's government  plans to buy back as much as 455 billion shillings ($3.5 billion) of domestic debt before it matures, people with knowledge of the matter said, expanding a program to handle loan repayment more flexibly....

Kenya's dollar-buying spree has raised its foreign-exchange reserves to the highest yet, with some analysts saying this could keep the shilling steady for longer....

Kenya's gross public debt fell for the first time in at least two decades as its world-beating currency helped the East African nation lower its external obligations....

Kenyan shilling flat as FX appetite muted Dec 17 (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling KES= was stable on Tuesday as hard-currency appetite was muted, traders said. At 0822 GMT commercial banks quoted the shilling at 129.00/129.50 to the U.S. dollar, the same level as Monday's close. Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Alexander Winning...

Kenyan shilling stable on FX inflows from tourism, tea exports NAIROBI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling KES= was stable on Friday on dollar inflows from the tourism sector and tea exports, one trader said. The shilling traded at 129.00/129.50 per dollar at 0656 GMT, the same as Thursday's closing rate. "The shilling is gaining strength against the dollar," the trader said....