The Deposit Protection Board (DPB) is an autonomous statutory body established under the Banking Act Chapter 24:20, to administer
Read more...Mission: To protect deposits, enhance public confidence and stability in the financial system. Vision: To be Africa’s Centre of Excellence in deposit protection.
Read more...WHAT IS DEPOSIT INSURANCE? Deposit Insurance is a system that protects depositors against the loss of their insured deposits placed with banks in the unlikely event of a bank failure. Conventional life and short term insurance companies do not provide deposit insurance cover. Generally , deposit...
Read more...What is a deposit? Deposit in this context means monies lodged by the general public with any insured bank
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The Deposit Protection Board (DPB) is an autonomous statutory body established under the Banking Act Chapter 24:20, to administer the Deposit Protection Fund (the Fund) .It commenced operations on July 1 2003, and its primary objective is to provide deposit insurance to depositors in registered deposit-taking institutions including Commercial banks, Merchant banks, Finance houses, Discount Houses, and Building Societies.The creation of the Fund is a Government policy response to a growing need to moderate instability in the banking sector and to protect the public, especially the small depositors against the worst consequences of bank failure.