@stonemimi - I have tried NBK & KCB as well... Both were OK back in the day but I bailed from NBK during their problems...

Treasury only guarantees 100k & post-goldenberg 100k was losing value fast. So when banks started collapsing & on the advise of a businessman I moved to a multinational bank. Then I figured better to buy their shares!

HFCK - I also had an account at HFCK... lakini that passbook was crazy! Ended up using the cash to buy HFCK shares. Much better than low interest!

@bnti: The easiest place to open any account is Equity Bank. But after opening, you will have to contend with long queues.....

AML policy.....Anti Money Laundering policies and KYC from CBK have to be followed when opening accounts (esp business accounts).Of late we have so many fake businesses opening accounts and more so from our Somali brothers.They will open an account for a small restaurant but the amounts you get being deposited into those accounts is more than what such 10 restaurants could ever make.

Hehe!Its happening in all banks VVS.Those days when you opened the account it was just "good manners" to do KYC.These days CBK says you will not get your banking license renewed if you cant prove you did KYC when opening customer accounts.That's why you are getting the calls. All the same, I think they should do it but make it easier or assist guys to fill those forms. I have seen a Somali owned restaurant that banks crazy amounts into some account somewhere and I sometimes wonder whether it could be piracy money.It's crazy!KYC is a must.

@bird-man

Lakini, si I had done they shyte back then... kwani?
Even back in the day, there used to take copies of my ID as well as info. It's not like I walked (CFC at the time) & deposited cash & received a chq book!