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NBK summer internships to begin in June
Monday, 24 May, 2010 – 15:01 | View Comments
NBK summer internships to begin in June

NBK Summer Internship
NBK [National Bank of Kuwait] will be starting an intensive summer internship program of 2 weeks for high-school students, college & university students in June [probably by June 13th]. This will be part
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ALERT: NBK / WATANI Online phishing email will steal your account details
Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 – 11:26 | View Comments
ALERT: NBK / WATANI Online phishing email will steal your account details

Got the above email today [look above], and from first look it seemed like genuine NBK / Watani correspondence. The sender email is ‘webmaster [at] nbk.com’, so GMAIL failed to detect it as SPAM. But
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NBK Online services are way down the drain nowadays
Wednesday, 9 Sep, 2009 – 14:32 | View Comments
NBK Online services are way down the drain nowadays

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tch tch tch..NBK Kuwait’s premiere bank is going through a bad depression phase when it comes to their online services. The site is more often down than up. And this could happen
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Check and Pay your landline [residential telephone] dues
Monday, 13 Apr, 2009 – 12:12 | View Comments
Check and Pay your landline [residential telephone] dues

Ministry of Communications has launched a drive to recover outstanding dues on landlines by April 26th. If dues are outstanding after April 26th you risk of landline disconnection. Already pre-recorded messages are being played to
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Visual explanation of Credit Crisis
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 11:02 | View Comments
Visual explanation of Credit Crisis

Credit Crisis…I believe every tom dick and harry now is aware of these terms around the globe. But what exactly is the real meaning of these two words is more complicated to most of us.
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Expats flee Dubai leaving cars at airport
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 14:38 | View Comments
Expats flee Dubai leaving cars at airport

Dubai is facing the onslaught of the Global Economic crisis and the worst fared are the expats who have been living a high-n-dry dream with home loans, car loans, and credit card balances. In the
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Central Bank of Kuwait looking into 4 bank merger requests?
Monday, 27 Oct, 2008 – 11:54 | View Comments
Central Bank of Kuwait looking into 4 bank merger requests?

Now this is getting more interesting …apparently unknown sources are claiming that atleast 4 banks in Kuwait are looking for merger(s). Now who could these banks be? Well we have limited number of banks only
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Gulf Bank rumors?!
Sunday, 26 Oct, 2008 – 17:02 | View Comments
Gulf Bank rumors?!

Getting SMS’s and calls about Gulf Bank position. This came after Gulf Bank share trading was halted today at KSE…as per the rumors:

Gulf Bank ATM machines are down

Police in place for any emergency

Gulf Bank has
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UPDATE: NBK card fiasco
Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 – 14:19 | View Comments
UPDATE: NBK card fiasco

The GM office of NBK just called in to update me on the issue of NBK card fiasco. NBK management was notified of the case and they reviewed the whole thing. NBK management accepted the
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NBK shameful customer service: Triple card fiasco in one week
Monday, 26 May, 2008 – 16:25 | View Comments
NBK shameful customer service: Triple card fiasco in one week

UPDATES: NBK has responded to the below issue [LINK] 
Just got an email from a service provider that a monthly transaction has been declined. I tried manually on the site and it was surely declined. So
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