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KCB shareholders set for record Sh13b dividend boom on half-year profit jump

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From left: KCB Group Chairman Joseph Kinyua, CEO Paul Russo and Director Finance Lawrence Kimathi during H1 2025 financial performance investor briefing in Nairobi, on August 13, 2025. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Shareholders of Kenya's largest bank by assets, KCB Group, will smile all the way to the bank after the lender announced a record interim dividend payout fuelled by an eight per cent surge in net profit to Sh32.3 billion for the first half of 2025.

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