Virtual lender Branch Kenya loans hit Sh3.6 billion

Virtual lender Branch Kenya loans hit Sh3.6 billion

Branch offers M-Pesa loans of up to Sh50,000 via an Android application that can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store. Lending
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12 cheap housing markets where purchasing power is the worst

The data, from the First American Real House Price Index, measures home price changes, taking local wages and mortgage rates into account “to
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Why Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Mostly Hype

Would you like to ride to work in a jet-powered roller-coaster gun? Elon Musk thinks you would. Musk, of SpaceX and Tesla (tsla) fame, recently
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UPDATE: Wall Street veteran Anthony Scaramucci fired from leading White House role

After ten days on the job, the White House removed Wall Street hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci as its communications director, a previously
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What You Should Know About ALS, The Disease That Killed Actor and Playwright Sam Shepard

Veteran actor, director, and playwright Sam Shepard—star of films such as the space drama The Right Stuff and war epic Black Hawk Down, as well
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Dillard's Needs More Than Real Estate Cash

“Dillard's is essentially an underleveraged real estate company that is masquerading as a low productivity retailer,” said Jeffrey Pierce, a managing
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Music Streaming Company Spotify Reaches a Big New Milestone

Spotify now has 60 million paying subscribers, adding 10 million subscribers in less than five months, a spokeswoman for the music streaming
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Foxconn Would Get These Huge Tax Breaks For Opening New US Plant

The Wisconsin governor ordered the state legislature back into special session on Tuesday to consider an incentive package that would award
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Bank lending grows 19%; money supply at P9.9 T

Banks' outstanding loans expanded by 19 percent year-on-year in June to P6.43 trillion with lending to real estate and manufacturing sectors
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Guild Mortgage Employees Volunteer Renovating Mexican School

Nearly 300 employees and senior managers from Guild Mortgage recently spent a day renovating a primary school and engaging with local students
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African real estate is set to create new ways to attract capital

This year's Africa Property Investment (API) Summit & Expo is set to put more emphasis on African real estate market markets' ability to attract capital
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Dillard's targeted by activist investor seeking to unlock real estate value

“Dillard's is essentially an underleveraged real estate company that is masquerading as a low productivity retailer,” Snow Park Managing Partner
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BNP Paribas Real Estate to Acquire Strutt & Parker

PARIS — The real estate arm of BNP Paribas, France's biggest listed bank, said on Monday it was set to acquire UK property services group Strutt
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Hackers Break Into HBO and Target 'Game of Thrones' Scripts

“What's its name? Oh I forget to tell. Its HBO and Game of Thrones……!!!!!! Fortune contacted HBO for more information and will update this story if
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Chinese Overseas Real Estate Buying Spree Slows, Delayed By Tightened Capital Controls

Chinese investment in international and U.S. real estate hit a historic high in 2016. “While we think the dollar amount is likely to decline somewhat this
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How Will Spotify's Direct Listing Work?

This article first appeared in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter on deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. Remember early 2017, when the IPO market
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Banks tightened lending standards for commercial real estate in second quarter: Fed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Loan officers at U.S. banks reported tightening lending standards on commercial real estate loans while terms for business
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Here's What iPhone 8 Will Offer—According to Apple

It's uncommon for the notoriously secretive Apple to reveal product details ahead of a launch, but that might have just happened. Well-known software
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BNP Paribas acquires UK real-estate group

BNP will merge its UK property arm, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, with Strutt & Parker to create a group with combined turnover of about £180m a year
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UPDATE 1-UK housing and consumer demand weaken as Bank of England meets

Though business lending was more upbeat, the figures are likely to boost the argument of those BoE policymakers meeting this week who say there is
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