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ALERT: NBK / WATANI Online phishing email will steal your account details
Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009 – 11:26 | One Comment
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 when you click on the links in the email it will take you to a ‘fake’ site where hackers have [...]

NBK Online services are way down the drain nowadays
Wednesday, 9 Sep, 2009 – 14:32 | 3 Comments
NBK Online services are way down the drain nowadays

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 at any hour of the day, weekday or weekend, holiday or no holiday. And the scripted answer you get from the customer service [...]

Check and Pay your landline [residential telephone] dues
Monday, 13 Apr, 2009 – 12:12 | No Comment
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 subscribers nearly daily, if your bill payment is outstanding. I received an automated call yesterday [although in Arabic], to clear [...]

Visual explanation of Credit Crisis
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 11:02 | No Comment
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. Check out this amazing video which explains clearly and precisely what is real meaning of Credit Crisis.

Expats flee Dubai leaving cars at airport
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 14:38 | 2 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 last 4 months or so around 3000 cars have been left outside the aiport with keys in the ignition and [...]

Central Bank of Kuwait looking into 4 bank merger requests?
Monday, 27 Oct, 2008 – 11:54 | No Comment
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 in Kuwait so to say 9 banks only. So if 4 are requesting mergers we are looking at half of [...]

Gulf Bank rumors?!
Sunday, 26 Oct, 2008 – 17:02 | One Comment
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 major losses on its sheets
People are rushing to pull money out of Gulf Bank

Although the Kuwait Govt has moved in [...]

UPDATE: NBK card fiasco
Wednesday, 28 May, 2008 – 14:19 | 3 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 facts that were raised, and has apologized for the episode. Also NBK has re-instated my card limits. Although the mini-card [...]

NBK shameful customer service: Triple card fiasco in one week
Monday, 26 May, 2008 – 16:25 | 3 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 I call up NBK to inquire about this. And guess what?! NBK decided to do three things in ONE WEEK:

They [...]

NBK Walkathon March 22nd: Track Map and details
Wednesday, 5 Mar, 2008 – 14:28 | 2 Comments
NBK Walkathon March 22nd: Track Map and details

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NBK Walkathon is on March 22nd. Registrations are taking place at NBK tent near Scientific Center on Gulf Road up to March 21st. Registrations will be done from 9am till 1pm and from 4pm till 9.30 pm everyday.
The walkathon is open to all ages and gender. Though the distance and starting points [...]

ALERT: KD 20 counterfeit notes warning
Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2007 – 10:44 | One Comment
ALERT: KD 20 counterfeit notes warning

HSBC has issued this advisory against the counterfeit KD20 notes.
Download this advisory [LINK]
You will need Acrobat reader to open this PDF file. Download Acrobat reader [LINK]

WTF: Gulf Bank salary accounts
Saturday, 27 Oct, 2007 – 16:21 | 4 Comments
WTF: Gulf Bank salary accounts

This is strange, it seems Gulf Bank will only cater to Kuwaiti customers as far as salary accounts are concerned. Their salary requirements is beyond most of non-Kuwaitis for Salary Gold Account. NBK is the best bank in Kuwait anyways.
Gulf Bank Salary accounts [LINK]

ChillNite:Polls | Your preferred bank in Kuwait?
Monday, 1 Oct, 2007 – 13:58 | One Comment
ChillNite:Polls | Your preferred bank in Kuwait?

Are you fed by your employer?
Tea / Coffee
All beverages
Beverages & snacks
Full Meals [breakfast, lunch, dinner]
Nope..employer is a lousy miser
View Results

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NBK Online Banking is crawling
Monday, 1 Oct, 2007 – 11:41 | One Comment
NBK Online Banking is crawling

..have been trying to login for the past hour or so, but no luck
The online page loads up but no account access oopssy!!
Update: The account page finally loaded up after like 2-3 minutes, but browsing within is damn slow.
NBK Online Banking [LINK]