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Edit request – FY2025 operational updates
[edit] | Part of an edit requested by an editor with a conflict of interest has been implemented. |
Disclosure: I am a paid editor. I work for Bean Interactive, a digital marketing agency engaged by Equity Group Holdings to propose factual updates to this article. Full disclosure is posted on my user page per Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
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Overview section – new paragraph
[edit]Proposed addition (after the existing Overview paragraphs):
- As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader
technology and digital financial services ecosystem. The Group reported that 98.2% of all transactions are conducted outside the branch, with 88.4% conducted through digital channels.As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader [1]
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History section – subscriber update
[edit]Current text:
- On 12 August 2021, Equity announced the roll out of its LTE or
fourth-generation (4G) broadband network service for Equitel SIM cards becoming the fifth telco in Kenya to offer 4G services.As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader
Proposed text (add after the existing 4G paragraph):
- On 12 August 2021, Equity announced the roll out of its LTE or
fourth-generation (4G) broadband network service for Equitel SIM cards becoming the fifth telco in Kenya to offer 4G services. According to the Communications Authority of Kenya's Second Quarter Sector Statistics Report for FY2025/26 (October–December 2025), Equitel had approximately 1.5 million active SIMs as of December 2025. During the same quarter, Finserve recorded total domestic voice traffic of 13.26 million minutes and total SMS traffic of 2.19 million messages, with an average on-net call duration of 1.4 minutes.As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader [2]
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Equity Group Holdings section
[edit]Current text:
- Equity Group Holdings is a largest financial services group in East
Africa. As of June 2021, the group had an asset base valued at over US$10.2 billion (KES1.119 trillion), with a total customer base in excess of 14 million, in the region the group serves.As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader
Proposed text:
- Equity Group Holdings Plc is the largest financial services group
in East and Central Africa. As of December 2025, the group had total assets valued at KSh 1.97 trillion (approximately US$15.2 billion), with a total customer base of over 22.4 million across seven countries in Africa.As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader [3]
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Equity Group Holdings section – subsidiaries list
[edit]Current list includes "Equity Banque Commerciale du Congo" and "Equity Investment Services Limited".
Proposed updated list:
- * Equity Bank Kenya Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Bank Rwanda Limited – Kigali, Rwanda
- * Equity Bank South Sudan Limited – Juba, South Sudan
- * Equity Bank Tanzania Limited – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- * Equity Bank Uganda Limited – Kampala, Uganda
- * Equity BCDC – Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- * Equity Consulting Group Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Insurance Agency Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Nominees Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Investment Bank Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Finserve Africa Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Life Assurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity General Insurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Health Insurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Azenia – Nairobi, Kenya
- * Equity Group Foundation – Nairobi, Kenya
MtKenyaReader (talk) 09:59, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, I just wanted to follow up politely on our edit request submitted on 30 April 2026 covering FY2025 digital transaction stats, Equitel subscriber figures (1.5 million active SIMs as verified by the Communications Authority of Kenya) and updated Equity Group Holdings section. Please let us know if you need any further information or clarification. Thank you for your patience. ~~~~ MtKenyaReader (talk) 12:37, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, I am following up politely on our edit request submitted
- on 30 April 2026 covering FY2025 digital transaction statistics,
- Equitel subscriber figures (1.5 million active SIMs as verified
- by the Communications Authority of Kenya Q2 FY2025/26 Sector
- Statistics Report) and an updated Equity Group Holdings section
- with the full subsidiaries list. It has now been approximately
- three months since submission. Please let us know if you require
- any further information or clarification. Thank you for your
- patience. MtKenyaReader (talk) 06:30, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- ↑ "Equity Group Holdings Achieves Historic Performance in FY 2025 with Profits reaching KES 75.5 billion". The Trading Room. 2026-03-18. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
- ↑ "Sector Statistics Report Q2 2025–2026" (PDF). Communications Authority of Kenya. 2026-04-01. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
- ↑ "Equity Group Holdings Achieves Historic Performance in FY 2025". The Trading Room. 2026-03-18. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
- ↑ "Equity Group Holdings Achieves Historic Performance in FY 2025". The Trading Room. 2026-03-18. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
MtKenyaReader (talk) 09:59, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
Partly done: I implemented the statistics. But I cannot find the wording you are suggesting other things be swapped into, and I don't quite understand the grammar of what you're asking to be added. "Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader." Its broader what? As for the list of holdings, just tell us the ones you want added or removed. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:33, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for implementing the transaction-percentage statistics, CaptainEek.
- On the wording — apologies for the confusion, that was a formatting artifact from how the request was templated, not an intentionally incomplete sentence. The full intended addition was:
- "As of FY2025, Finserve operates as part of Equity Group's broader technology and digital financial services ecosystem."
- That sentence was meant to introduce the 98.2%/88.4% figures you've already added. Happy to leave the numbers standing alone if you'd rather not add it — let me know either way.
- On the subsidiaries list, here's the specific diff against what's currently on the page rather than a full replacement:
- Rename:
- "Equity Banque Commerciale du Congo" → "Equity BCDC"
- "Equity Investment Services Limited" → "Equity Investment Bank Limited"
- Add:
- Equity Life Assurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- Equity General Insurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- Equity Health Insurance (Kenya) Limited – Nairobi, Kenya
- Azenia – Nairobi, Kenya
- Equity Group Foundation – Nairobi, Kenya
- No removals — the other entities stay as listed. One more thing: the citation I originally gave for this list (The Trading Room) was the wrong source for a corporate-structure claim regardless of the reliability question raised elsewhere — I'll replace it with the Equity Group Holdings corporate structure page or the FY2025 Investor Booklet's group-structure section instead. MtKenyaReader (talk) 13:20, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
- [Guessing] on whether "Equity Investment Services Limited" and "Equity Investment Bank Limited" are the same legal entity renamed, versus two different entities — check that before you post; if I've got that wrong, drop that line from the rename list and just add it as new. MtKenyaReader (talk) 13:20, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
