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Kenya: Fast Facts
Kenya is the center of impact investing in Africa, with more deals commenced and executed there than in any other African country. It is also one of the centers of finance in Africa, and the Kenyan Capital Markets Authority has ambitious plans to make Kenya an international financial center. With such ambitions come greater stability, better and more facilitative and pragmatic regulation, and greater investor confidence, across asset classes.
Kenya has a developed legal system and considerable capital markets sophistication. The Nairobi Stock Exchange is one of the leading exchanges in Africa.
One of the more significant impediments to impact investing in Kenya is the security situation, but Kenya shares that challenge with other African countries. Beyond this, there are a limited number of deal exits, insufficient investment-ready opportunities, the inflation of valuations due to competing investment capital (both a plus and a minus to be sure) and the relatively long due diligence process. But those challenges are also opportunities, as they give advantage to a disciplined and robust impact investing approach which will help to attack impediments to growth and, over time, improve standards of living.
For more information about the impact investing ecosystem, click the icons, below. You can also send your specific inquiries to Secretariat@ImpactatAfrica.org.
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About Impact@Africa
Impact@Africa is a pan-African ecoystem development network that brings together all players to concentrate efforts on creating a vibrant environment for impact investing on the continent by addressing key barriers that inhibit the development and growth of the sector in Africa.
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