This paper sought to establish the linkages between bank performance and real sector productivity. We use data for five East African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) for the period 2014-2022. We initially deploy the traditional panel fixed effects regression and...

We examine the effect of the fintech ecosystem on the consumption of formal financial services such as savings, credit and use of capital markets instruments in Kenya. We deploy Probit regression on data from FinAccess Survey for 2016 and 2021. Findings suggest that the fintech ecosystem...

This paper has investigated the drivers for bank expansion abroad in East Africa. We use a Poisson regression model with number of banks going abroad as our dependent variable and several host-country and source-country explanatory variables. Our results indicate that follow-the-customer motive...