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    Credit Risk Management and Access to Banking Services by Islamic Banking Customers in Kenya
    (CARI Journals, 2017) Jimale, Hussein Diriye; Ndede, Fredrick W. S.
    Purpose: This study sought was to assess the effect of credit risk management on access to banking services by Islamic banking customers in Kenya. Methodology: Descriptive research design was adopted. The target population for this study was 225 employees working in the head offices of the selected Islamic banks. Stratified sampling and simple random sampling were used in generating the sample. This study made use of primary data collected using structured questionnaires. The collected data was entered into the Statistical Program for Social Sciences for windows version 20 because of its ability to analyze data easily and accurately. Multiple regression analysis was used to obtain the model for the study. The study results were presented using percentages, tables and charts Results: The study findings revealed that asset quality as measured by the non-performing loans ratio had a negative and significant effect on access to banking service by Islamic customers in Kenya. Capital adequacy, market structure and technology adoption were found to have a positive and significant effect on access to banking service by Islamic customers in Kenya. It was concluded that the level of credit risk management in Islamic banking where the level of credit risk was high was crucial for the banks in Kenya if they were to expand the level of access to Islamic banking by Islamic customers. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommended that banks needed to develop strategies on how to deal with credit risk by striving to keep the amount of nonperforming loans low. The study also recommended that these banks should expand their capital bases in order to strengthen their resilience and internal strength to withstand losses especially when faced by a crisis. They needed to pursue diversification across individual customers by increasing the breadth of products they coul offer to their customers. The regulators of the market needed to ensure prudent supervision so as to maintaining healthy competition in this market. It was also recommended that banks needed to promote the use of technological innovations within banking area such as internet banking, mobile banking as well as ATM banking by their customers.
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    Entrepreneur’s Innovativeness on Access to Venture Capital by Small and Medium Enterprises in Nairobi City County, Kenya
    (Stratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishing, 2019-11) Muchira, Bancy Wawira; Jagongo, Ambrose; Simiyu, Eddie
    Despite the effort made by the government of Kenya to support the growth of SME sector by creating enabling environment through appropriate legal and regulatory procedures, and in spite the fact that banks have recently made micro-credit accessible to MSEs (MESPT, 2011), there is no indication that the sector is growing. Empirical evidence shows that most of these enterprises fail due to poor/lack of access to finance. Access to venture capital by the small and medium enterprises could be a plausible alternative but unfortunately research has pointed out that majority of the enterprises do not access venture capital financing, which is considered an important option for small and medium enterprises trying to grow. This study therefore sought to investigate the effect of entrepreneur’s innovativeness on access to venture capital by small and medium enterprises in Kenya. The study adopted the explanatory non-experimental research design and positivism philosophy guided the study. Target population of the study was 334 Small and medium size enterprises ranked by KPMG between 2008 and 2017 in their annual survey. Proportionate random sampling technique was used to select the firms. Data was collected by use of questionnaire, using drop and pick method. Both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Nested multinomial logit model was used. The results reveal that the influence of an entrepreneur’s innovativeness on access to venture capital financing is statistically significant. From the findings, it is recommended that SMEs should continue investing in enhancing entrepreneurial innovativeness as it increases the propensity of their enterprises from accessing venture capital financing