{"id":238804,"date":"2026-07-16T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moniepoint-names-rose-muturi-to-lead-kenya-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:33:58","slug":"kenya-moniepoint-names-rose-muturi-to-lead-kenya-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-moniepoint-names-rose-muturi-to-lead-kenya-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Moniepoint Names Rose Muturi to Lead Kenya Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Moniepoint appointed former Branch Kenya Chief Executive Officer Rose Muturi to lead its operations in Kenya as the Nigerian fintech builds its banking and payments business in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Muturi will oversee Moniepoint Group&#8217;s strategy in the country rather than manage Sumac Microfinance Bank, which the company acquired earlier in 2026. Sumac will continue to operate under its own management team, Moniepoint said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The acquisition gave Moniepoint access to a deposit-taking microfinance licence,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607160034.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>Moniepoint appointed former Branch Kenya Chief Executive Officer Rose Muturi to lead its operations in Kenya as the Nigerian fintech builds its banking and payments business in East Africa. Muturi will oversee Moniepoint Group&#8217;s strategy in the country rather than manage Sumac Microfinance Bank, which the company acquired earlier in 2026. Sumac will continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5779,4688,430,7358,54847,24052,8650,257,20899,254],"class_list":["post-238804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expansion","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lead","tag-moniepoint","tag-muturi","tag-names","tag-news","tag-rose","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238804","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=238804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}