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Top 25 Microfinance banks based in Kenya
RevenueBase identified 205 microfinance banks headquartered in Kenya as of September 2026 and tracks 12,804 professional contacts across them, including 1,188 with verified work emails. Nairobi is the largest hub.
This list covers microfinance banks headquartered in Kenya, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest microfinance banks based in Kenya
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Faulu Microfinance Bank, a member of the Old Mutual Group and one of Kenya’s fastest growing banks with a network of over 50 outlets and employees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 478 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kingdom Bank is a subsidiary of the Co-operative Bank of Kenya, serving all micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and salaried individuals in the public and private sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Juhudi Kilimo company is a micro finance institution incorporated in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mwananchi Credit Limited is a No.1, award-winning financial services microfinance institution operating in Kenya since 2010, licensed & regulated by CBK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jirani Smart Ltd is a microfinance founded from the need to offer better financial and non-financial services to the poor especially in rural areas who have for many years not…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Musoni is the world’s first financial institution to exclusively use mobile money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ECLOF Kenya is a micro-finance institution providing financial and non-financial services to micro, small and medium entrepreneurs in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SMEP Microfinance Bank Limited is a public limited company incorporate under the companies Act (Cap 486) and licensed under the Microfinance Act and regulated by The Central Bank…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ngao Credit Limited is a non-deposit taking Microfinance institution founded with the main goal of providing financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caritas Microfinance Bank is licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Letshego Kenya Limited is the largest credit only microfinance institution in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VisionFund Kenya, was established by World Vision as a wholly owned subsidiary to oversee World Vision's microfinance work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Women Enterprise Fund was established in 2007 with five mandates which address, financial inclusion through affordable credit, capacity building, market linkages, marketing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises (AGF) contributes to the promotion of economic development vital for prosperity, stability and poverty reduction in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Watu is an Asset FinTech revolutionising financial inclusion across Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jitegemea Credit is a microfinance institution is a project of PCEA operating under the Board for Social Responsibility (BSR).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FinCredit Ltd (formerly AAR Credit Services Ltd) is a premier credit only micro-finance institution with operations in Kenya and Uganda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Platinum Credit Limited is a Micro Finance Company licensed in Kenya under the Company’s Act.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We support MSME's in Africa by bringing their businesses online and providing working capital financing for them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the leading Lending Institution” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fortune credit was founded in 2014 to provide financial and non-financial services to the financially excluded and underbanked.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sumac Microfinance Bank is licensed and regulated by Central Bank of Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Anvil Shield Holdings Ltd story begins in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LOLC Kenya Microfinance Bank PLC was licensed in January, 2011 to do deposit taking business as the first start-up Company after successful inspection of premises, policies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: microfinance banks. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names microfinance banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of microfinance banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name microfinance banks. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Microfinance banks based in Kenya at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Kenya, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Kenya, over 205 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among microfinance banks, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Kenya whose own description of what they do matches “microfinance banks”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names microfinance banks), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among microfinance banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Kenya are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,188 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names microfinance banks, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many microfinance banks are there based in Kenya?
RevenueBase identified 205 microfinance banks headquartered in Kenya as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Faulu Microfinance Bank, headquartered in Nairobi, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most microfinance banks?
Nairobi leads with 152 headquartered companies, followed by Mombasa (11) and Thika (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,188 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 205 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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