{
  "id": 9148155,
  "title": "CBK: Kenyan banks held Ksh696B in bad loans in 2025",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/cbk-kenyan-banks-held-ksh696b-in-bad-loans-in-2025",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-22T13:23:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/cbk-kenyan-banks-held-ksh696b-in-bad-loans-in-2025"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenyan banks held nearly Ksh700 billion in non-performing loans (NPLs) at the end of 2025, even as the quality of their loan books improved during the year. The stock of gross non-performing loans stood at Ksh696.9 billion in December 2025, down marginally from Ksh697.3 billion recorded in December 2024, according to the Central Bank of […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}