I wanted to use the Nakumatt card overseas but had problems reloading it using mpesa. Transaction initially seemed to go through but was reversed a couple of days later. I never tried again. Reloading KES at the cashier in Nakumatt works just fine.
Then, when I wanted to load foreign currency, I found out that I had to load in KES and then transfer to the foreign currency I wanted using the online system which offered me very horrible exchange rates.
So I went back to the I&M cards, where I can just buy the foreign currency at any FOREX and directly load it at I&M branch.
The Nakumatt card is now just used for KES and smartpoints. Never failed yet so far.
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