[quote=Surealligator]This is the lead story in Business Daily today.
BBK and SCB are going to be the hardest hit as they still hold the biggest chunk of unclaimed assets.
BBK was smart to sell its Custodial Business as they saw this coming.
Equity bank is still young and thus has not accumulate alot of the unaccounted for assets.
Here is an excerpt.
Banks, for instance, draw from their pool of customer deposits - including unclaimed deposits - to fund their lending business but the new law is set to change this.
At an average lending rate of 14 per cent, banks could lose interest income of up to Sh14 billion should the more than Sh100 billion in unclaimed deposits --representing eight per cent of total deposits-- be taken by the authority.
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I do agree with you and support the authority in getting these assets.If you look at the recent happenings in the banks where the employees have been getting big from these unclaimed assets,you are left to ask who the beneficiaries are.If the beneficiaries cannot be traced,let the authorities take the assets back.
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it". Malcolm X