About Us

Your Solid Development Partner

We are driven by the desire to guide you in all your financial ventures. We have continually broken new ground in advising our clients on strategic projects and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.


Vision

To be a preferred provider of financial services.


Mission

To offer sustainable integrated financial services that respond to the needs of consumers, businesses, enterprises and communities.

Our History

Since its founding in 1963, Development Bank of Kenya Ltd (DBK) and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services in Kenya. The bank started off as a non-banking financial institution whose principal activity was to promote and develop commercially viable projects. The bank commenced financing operations in 1964 and for a period of 3 decades as a Development Financial Institution (DFI), it concentrated its investment in a wide range of sectors spanning from the agriculture, manufacturing to construction, communication and tourism encompassing all major investment sectors in Kenya. In the evaluation of projects for investment, the broad criteria of commercial viability and developmental value were given particular attention, with emphasis on such aspects as promotion of local entrepreneurship, stimulus to economic and social environment, generation and conservation of foreign exchange, use of local raw materials, job creation and efficient use of foreign and local know-how. DBK has continually broken new ground in advising our clients on strategic projects, in pioneering the expansion of the local economy, and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.

Our Core Values

In pursuit of it's vision and mission, the Bank will espouse the following core values:

Customer Centric: “The customer is at the core of our service delivery”.

Diversity: “We shall create work environment that’s promotes equality, an inclusive and flexible culture”.

Teamwork:“We shall foster collaborative effort to achieve common goals in the most effective and efficient ways.”

Integrity:“We purpose to uphold strong ethical and moral principles”.

Corresponding Banks

  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • One Madison Avenue
  • New York, 10010-3603
  • USA
  • Nedbank
  • P.O. Box 1144
  • Johannesburg 2000, GTG
  • South Africa
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • Citicorp Ctr
  • 1 Basinghall Avenue
  • London EC2V 5DD
  • Tel. +44(020)7885 8888
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • 90 Matatma Gandi Road
  • Bandra-kurla Complex
  • Mumbai India 400 001
  • TEL: +91 22 226 70162
  • BHF Bank
  • Bockenheimer
  • Landstrasse 10
  • D-60323
  • Frankfurt Am Main-
  • Bank of Communications China
  • 188 Yin Cheng Zhong Road
  • Shangai 200120 - China
  • TEL: +86 21 58408478
  • BHF-Bank (EUR)
  • Bockenheimer Landstrasse 10
  • D-60323 Frankfurt am Main,
  • Germany
  • TEL: 49 69 7180
  • FAX: 49 69 7182296
  • TLX: 411 026 bhf d.
  • SWIFT/BIC: BHFBDEFF