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Quoting from: http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Nation+DTB+launch+money+transfer+service/-/1006/1480174/-/item/1/-/4k3sym/-/index.html





If anyone is lying, it would have to be them.

That language is uncalled for.

The media company and DTB launched a Visa pre-paid card known as NationHela which targets mainly Kenyans sending money home.

“Users can send money online, directly from a Paypal account, debit or credit card into the NationHela account. Diamond Trust Bank will handle the back office side of the business,” NMG chief executive Linus Gitahi said on Wednesday at the official launch.

I think the answer lies there.

this alma guy is good.

I wonder how many kenyans have been to the airport leave alone London.

I will make this clear enough for everyone out there who is believing this nonsense from Nation.

When you open a paypal account in Kenya, you are registered as a Kenyan in their system. You will never be able to change that for the rest of your life.

In Kenya you only have one option, withdraw funds from a US bank. NO OTHER WAY!

https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

Please read that instead of reading press releases created by people who don't know what they are saying.

So if you are from Kenya and your account says Kenyan, you have no way to withdraw your funds but through a US bank. Good luck getting that.

Second Hand Method of Withdrawing

There are third party merchants who can offer you a US bank account. One of them is payoneer. So you withdraw your funds from Paypal to a Payoneer US bank account which then transfers your funds to your debit card.

If this is what Nation is offering, waseme hivyo.

Saying anything else is lying. They can sue me if they wish.


Debit Card Withdrawal

When debit card withdrawal comes to PayPal, this will not help the hela either. Paypal has their own cheaper and better option. Why would anyone get the nation one and leave the one from Paypal?

It currently costs me less than 80cts usd to transfer money from my paypal account to a debit card and its rates are international rates, why would I leave my card to go get fleeced by another Kenyan bank and corporate. The card doesn't charge me for withdrawal. Infact I get a rebate when I use it.

Like I said, they will be decimated.

Even if you do research for 6 months, it is important to note who did the research. Was it synovate or the other ones? The time research is done is not directly proportional to the quality of research.

If they had bothered to get an paypal account, they would not have had their CEO give such a loaded statement.

thought this was major NMG undertaking. @Alma, I like the way you put it like no effort made to get some basics which even mr.google can throw you at the cost of 1MB.

To me this is probably one of the worst products in the market simply because they seem to have misled with their advertising that one can withdraw directly from paypal using their card.

But heck I make mistakes too and admit to not having a hela card so can't verify it. But I think Nation is a big company, they can do a demo of their hela account withdrawing from Paypal. I offer $20 in my account which I shall send to the hela people to do the demo.

If it works, I promise to eat humble pie and profusely apologise to all and sundry.

As for paying 500 bob for a debit card. Please, these things are free when you open a bank account.

As for buying products using Mpesa, please go to kopokopo, you can now buy products using mpesa without another third party getting a commission off you.

As for Kenyans in the diaspora using their card, you have got to be kidding me!

Disporans can transfer funds from the bank account straight to western union and straight to a western union debit card which your family controls. Heck they can send you their paypal debit card which you can withdraw at better rates than any bank can ever imagine offering. It takes 10 minutes to do this.

So exactly what type of research went into this thing? What is revolutionary about it?

That is a blatant two faced lie.

@murchr,can
you & nation please stop lying to Kenyans living in Kenya!
As long as you live in Kenya....you can receive funds via PayPal but you CANNOT withdraw the funds!Please open a paypal account in Kenya before you comment.

I have a paypal account and i can withdraw money using my KCB and I&M bank accounts

Please walk in to any of the banks and tell them that you want an account that can enable u to withdraw from paypal. KCB can and I&M too