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Standard Chartered Kenya posts 7.5 pct rise in 2014 pre-tax profit

Reuters - UK Focus

NAIROBI, March 26 (Reuters) - Standard Chartered Bank Kenya reported on Thursday a 7.5 percent rise in pre-tax profit for 2014 to 14.35 billion shillings ($156 million) as net interest income climbed.

The bank, a unit of Standard Chartered (HKSE: 2888.HK - news) , reported pre-tax profit of 13.35 billion shillings in 2013. Net interest income rose to 17.90 billion shillings in 2014 from 16.76 billion shillings a year earlier.

($1 = 91.7500 Kenyan shillings) (Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Drazen Jorgic)