Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to check a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya is to search the Capital Markets Authority’s public licensees register, not a fund fact sheet or a bank brochure alone. The Authority’s register, headed “LICENSEES/ MARKET PLAYERS” and still served on 12 November 2026 at licensees.cma.or.ke, has a separate “CORPORATE TRUSTEES” category at licensees.cma.or.ke/licenses/18/. That category page, checked the same day, is a table with four official columns: Name, Address, License Number and Website.
On a count of that official CORPORATE TRUSTEES table on 12 November 2026, there were 10 printed name-and-licence-number rows, covering 10 unique names and 9 unique licence numbers. One licence number is printed against two similar company names. This guide does not paste the names. Search the exact name and licence number. A later official register would supersede that count. A CMA REIT trustee, an authorised depository, a fund manager or an RBA pension trustee is not a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya merely because it appears in a different official category.
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What a CMA corporate-trustee licence is
The Capital Markets Authority is the official publisher of this register. The homepage, checked on 12 November 2026, lists corporate trustees as one category among the Authority’s licensees and market players, alongside fund managers, authorised depositories, REIT trustees and several other distinct headings. A firm can hold more than one type of CMA licence. Each category has to be checked on its own page.
This corporate-trustees table is not the REIT-trustees category, and it is not the Retirement Benefits Authority regime for pension-scheme trustees. A bank or a trustee company can appear in more than one official list. If you are checking the trustee named on a unit trust or another CMA-regulated scheme, use this CORPORATE TRUSTEES table. If the document instead names a REIT trustee, open that separate official category.
How to search for a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya
To check a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya, ask for the firm’s exact licensed name and its CMA licence number, then open the official CORPORATE TRUSTEES category rather than a general web search.
On licensees.cma.or.ke/licenses/18/, the page provides a search box whose official placeholder, checked on 12 November 2026, is “Search by name or license number.” A GET search on that page returns the matching official row, with the same four columns as the full table. Use that search when you already have a name or a number. If you are browsing the whole category, the 12 November 2026 table loaded as a single page, so this guide does not invent a later page of names.
The register homepage search is narrower. Its official placeholder is “Search by category name.” A search there looks up the category headings, such as “CORPORATE TRUSTEES,” not an individual firm. Do not treat a blank homepage search for a company name as proof that the firm is unlicensed. Open the CORPORATE TRUSTEES category and search there.
Match the licensed name and the licence number to the scheme documents you were given. The official table identifies a name and a number; it does not, by itself, prove that a particular fund still has that trustee, or that a person on a sales call works for that firm.
What the November 2026 count includes, and what it omits
The count below is from the official CORPORATE TRUSTEES table as served on 12 November 2026, not from a media republication and not from a Business Radar tool. It is the current official snapshot of a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya on that category page. This guide does not paste the names, addresses, licence numbers or websites.
There were 10 printed name-and-licence-number rows. Those rows covered 10 unique names and 9 unique licence numbers, because one licence number is printed against two similar company names. That typographical clash is disclosed, not resolved. The printed licence numbers on the page are not a continuous series; unused numbers are not a second official list.
The table does not print a licence-issue date, an expiry date or a status badge such as “active” or “suspended.” It also does not list the schemes for which the trustee acts, or the fees it charges. Those questions sit outside this headcount.
How this sits with funds and other trustee roles
Checking a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya is one step in understanding a unit trust or similar scheme, not the whole product check. Also confirm that the fund manager and the scheme itself are on their own official CMA categories, and read the published guides to what fund managers in Kenya are not allowed to do with your money and to checking a CMA-approved money market fund.
Use those pages for the conduct rules and the scheme check. Use the official CORPORATE TRUSTEES table for the name and licence number of the CMA corporate trustee printed on your documents.
What to do if the name is missing
If the name or licence number you were given does not appear in the CORPORATE TRUSTEES category, check that you used the licensed company name, not only a parent-bank brand, and that you searched the corporate-trustees page rather than the homepage category search. Then check whether the firm is instead listed as a REIT trustee, an authorised depository, a fund manager or an RBA pension trustee. Those are different official headings.
If it still does not appear, treat the official table as the current public list and ask the firm, or the fund manager who named it, to show the current official licence details in writing. The register answers a narrow question: is this name among the 10 official CORPORATE TRUSTEES rows counted on 12 November 2026, and what licence number is printed beside it? It does not, on its own, approve a contribution or a withdrawal.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official CMA corporate-trustee list?
On the Capital Markets Authority licensees register. The CORPORATE TRUSTEES category, checked on 12 November 2026, is at licensees.cma.or.ke/licenses/18/. The register homepage at licensees.cma.or.ke lists that category among the Authority’s other licensees and market players.
How many CMA corporate trustees are on the register?
On a count of the official CORPORATE TRUSTEES table on 12 November 2026, there were 10 printed name-and-licence-number rows, covering 10 unique names and 9 unique licence numbers. That is the current official snapshot of a CMA corporate trustee in Kenya on that page, not a later total. One licence number is printed against two similar company names.
Is a corporate trustee the same as a REIT trustee?
Not on the official headings. A CMA corporate trustee in Kenya appears in the CORPORATE TRUSTEES category. REIT trustees appear in a separate category on the same official register. Check the heading that matches the role printed on your documents.
What if the firm is not on the corporate-trustees page?
Search the exact licensed name and licence number on the CORPORATE TRUSTEES category page, not only the homepage category search. If it still does not appear, check whether it is listed under a different official heading, and ask for the current official licence details. A later official register would supersede the 12 November 2026 count.
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