Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with CFOs East Africa to enhance wealth and risk management capabilities among Chief Financial Officers and senior finance professionals across the region. This collaboration builds on the bank's sponsorship of the annual CFOs East Africa Awards 2025 and introduces an advisory pathway to help CFOs manage corporate and personal assets.

• Standard Chartered will offer wealth management advisory services to more than 400 financial decision-makers, including CFOs from the public sector and private companies.
• Head of Wealth and Retail Banking, Edith Chumba, emphasized balancing short-term performance with long-term wealth creation.
• Winners of the CFOs East Africa Awards included Dilip Pal, Safaricom Group CFO, who was named East Africa CFO of the Year and received the Strategy Execution Award for Safaricom's Ethiopia expansion.

Zoho is expanding its Young Creators Program (YCP) across East Africa to address the growing digital skills gap, offering hands-on training in low-code application development to students and professionals.

• The program has trained over 4,000 participants globally since 2022.
• Zoho East Africa's Regional Manager, Veerakumar Natarajan, highlighted the program's goal to make technology education accessible and practical.
• Workshops leverage AI-assisted app development through CoCreator and have been launched in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Madagascar, including a workshop at EldoHub in Kenya with 42 participants.

NCBA Bank is bolstering its support for Kenyan small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through an expanded Enterprise Development Programme. This initiative, run in partnership with Strathmore Business School, aims to equip businesses with crucial skills and networks for sustainable growth.

• 24 NCBA SME customers from diverse sectors recently completed the 16-week program.
• The program combines academic training with practical coaching in areas like financial management and digital transformation.
• NCBA also offers an expanded ecosystem of SME support through partnerships with organizations such as the Africa Guarantee Fund, AFAWA, Water.Org, and Proparco, helping to mitigate credit risk and expand access to financing.
• The Enterprise Development Programme has benefited over 300 NCBA customers to date.
• Eligible businesses must have operated for at least two years, employ a minimum of three staff, and post an annual turnover of at least Sh3 million.