Equity Bank experienced a widespread service outage on Thursday morning, 1st October 2026, affecting customers in both Kenya and Rwanda. The cause and estimated restoration time remain unknown, leaving customers with many unanswered questions.

• Equity Bank announced "intermittent service downtime affecting all our services" in Kenya, while its Rwandan arm reported issues with "some banking services".
• The outage occurred more than seven hours after a previously announced planned system maintenance window concluded.
• An unverified social media post suggested a Checkpoint Firewall failure at the bank's primary data center as a possible cause, impacting ATMs, mobile banking, and other services.

Stanbic Bank is bringing Grammy Award-winning artist Ne-Yo to Nairobi for "One Night Only: Brunch Edition" on Mashujaa Day, October 20th, 2026.

• Gold tickets are priced at KES 15,000, with cheaper tiers already sold out.
• The event is organized by Fenon Premium Productions and Radio Africa Group, with Stanbic Bank as the title sponsor.
• This marks Ne-Yo's first performance in Kenya in 11 years, following his appearance on Coke Studio Africa in 2015.

Safaricom and Pesapal have partnered to introduce two new convenient ways for customers to pay using M-PESA at Pesapal point-of-sale machines: by tapping their phone or scanning a QR code.

• This partnership allows payments by tapping a smartphone (using NFC) or by scanning a QR code displayed on the Pesapal machine.
• Key organizations involved are Safaricom, Kenya's leading telecommunications company, and Pesapal, an independent payment company.
• This integration aims to streamline the payment process, reducing the need to manually input till numbers or amounts, with the Tap-to-Pay feature requiring the My OneApp.