KDIC is a statutory institution established under the Kenya Deposit Insurance Act, 2012 (KDI Act, 2012). The Corporation is mandated to provide a deposit insurance scheme for customers of member institutions, to provide incentives for sound risk management and generally promote the stability of the financial system and prompt resolution.
Further, KDIC protects depositors against the loss of all their deposits or bank balance in the unlikely event of a bank failure. To this end, the Corporation provides payments of insured deposits thereby enhancing the confidence of depositors, thus inspiring them to keep their savings within the insured banking and payments system. The Corporation was established in response to challenges presented by banking crises and bank failures in the country. Since its inception, KDIC has lived up to its mandate in the over thirty years of existence.
The main functions of KDIC are to:
Provide a deposit insurance scheme for customers of member institutions
Provide incentives for sound risk management
Promptly resolve problem banks in order to proactively mitigate any failure