Kenya’s Treasury aims to end banks’ dominance of bond market 

The National Treasury building in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Kenya’s National Treasury is seeking to reduce the dominance of banks in government securities investments by opening up the market to more non-bank financial institutions. 

The move is likely to tame the high interest rates demanded by investors in government bonds, which have recently gone as high as 18 percent.