The lender, which is controlled by Standard Chartered Plc, said in a statement late on Tuesday its net interest income rose 7% to 4.92 billion shillings, while loan impairments fell 121% to 86 million shillings.
($1 = 116.2500 Kenyan shillings)
(Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)