{"id":194044,"date":"2025-03-20T07:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-interest-earning-pushes-stanchart-net-profit-to-sh20bn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:03:37","slug":"kenya-high-interest-earning-pushes-stanchart-net-profit-to-sh20bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-interest-earning-pushes-stanchart-net-profit-to-sh20bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Interest Earning Pushes Stanchart Net Profit to Sh20bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Standard Chartered Bank profit after tax expanded by Sh6.23 billion to Sh20 billion last year on the back of improved incomes from interest and non-interest sub-sectors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">During a similar period in 2023, the lender recorded a Sh13.8 billion net profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">For instance, the bank&#8217;s net interest income increased by 13 percent to Sh33.27 billion, largely due to higher volumes and improved margins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">On the other hand, non-interest income surged by 40 percent, reaching Sh17.41 billion, buoyed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Standard Chartered Bank profit after tax expanded by Sh6.23 billion to Sh20 billion last year on the back of improved incomes from interest and non-interest sub-sectors. During a similar period in 2023, the lender recorded a Sh13.8 billion net profit. For instance, the bank&#8217;s net interest income increased by 13 percent to Sh33.27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,23015,6184,4378,4688,430,20460,257,15693,16296,33222,254,25382],"class_list":["post-194044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-earning","tag-high","tag-interest","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-net","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-pushes","tag-sh20bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stanchart"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}