Banks Seen as Biggest Winners as Kenya Lawmakers Scrap Rate Caps

  • Vote held amid disruptions that forced 10-minute adjournment
  • Cap cut credit to businesses and complicated monetary policy
Uhuru KenyattaPhotographer: Paul Miller/Bloomberg
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President Uhuru Kenyatta won a critical vote in parliament to remove interest-rate caps, paving the way to scrap a law that’s starved businesses of credit.