{"id":209656,"date":"2025-10-12T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-securities-exchange-launches-banking-sector-index\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:00:06","slug":"kenya-nairobi-securities-exchange-launches-banking-sector-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-securities-exchange-launches-banking-sector-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nairobi Securities Exchange Launches Banking Sector Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has launched a Banking Sector Index to track the performance of Kenya&#8217;s 11 listed lenders, starting October 1, 2025<\/li>\n<li>The market-capitalization-weighted and float-adjusted index will serve as a transparent benchmark for investors and pave the way for Exchange Traded Funds<\/li>\n<li>Constituents include KCB Group, Equity Group, Co-operative Bank, Absa Bank Kenya, NCBA Group, Stanbic Holdings, I&amp;M Group, Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), BK Group, and HF Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Nairobi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100074.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>TLDR The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has launched a Banking Sector Index to track the performance of Kenya&#8217;s 11 listed lenders, starting October 1, 2025 The market-capitalization-weighted and float-adjusted index will serve as a transparent benchmark for investors and pave the way for Exchange Traded Funds Constituents include KCB Group, Equity Group, Co-operative Bank, Absa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00180470:e88eaa0fcfc14681ef6c78500c709f6e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,10023,9607,5222,4688,430,5957,259,257,5991,20876,254],"class_list":["post-209656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banking","tag-exchange","tag-index","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-launches","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-sector","tag-securities","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00180470:e88eaa0fcfc14681ef6c78500c709f6e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209656","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=209656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}