Looks like interest cap is working...more lending

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Good news but KCB for one are using sneaky little tricks to get around that pesky bill. They're now charging 1.16% per month on their KCB Mpesa loans then adding something like 2.5% administrative fee.

Ok, that's still much better than Safcon's 7.5% per month administrative fee but come on. 

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Banks had outpriced themselves out of credit market; only the suicidal would borrow loan at 20-25%. Now at 14% the Gov has really helped them. Now they'll have an avalanche of good quality borrowers. Anybody borrowing at 25% is not serious...

The micro-loans at 1.7% or 2% per month is going to unlock these mobile-loans whose cost should really be rock bottom - all you need is a server running some algorithm -nearly zero CAPEX and OPEX! Where I work...we have on server..handling m-pesa payments of nearly 0.5M clients....with just one guy to baby sit it.