Thursday 7 November 2019

10 REASONS YOU SHOULD UNBANK YOURSELF WITH CBA LOOP


The banking world has elated to higher heights with CBA Loop cutting its niche in the modern banking technology that many might be forced to embrace in the foreseeable future.

Loop ensures that your money is safe while at the same time checking your spending habits so that any time you spend; there is a crystal clear reason why. And it isn’t merely a bank since it makes sure that your money exists for one simple reason. To make sure you rip life’s price tag right off the label. Loop provides the coin you need to light up the game you’re trying to beat at life’s arcade.

"We set money free with a fully digital money management app that achieves something we've been told is impossible – letting money make us happy," says a CBA Loop agent.
According to a user manual upon account registration, one will realize that Loop is a fully functional bank just like any other, only that it is somehow portable. It allows you to do the usual things that usual banks do, but unusually. 
Managing your finances, loans and investments, slot right into your life like the perfect block in life's Tetris game.

“We turn jumping through hoops into joyful loops, it returns joy to the money you work so hard to acquire,” says another Loop agent.

There exists an array of reasons you should take that big leap of faith and register yourself with CBA Loop to turn your dreams into solid cash you can substantiate. All that you need is a smartphone, data bundles and you will be good to go. The following are reasons why you should unbank yourself while banking on your ambitions with CBA Loop:

          Photo Courtesy: CBA Loop Bank store

A pocket-sized financial manager - With Loop, you will be able to transact normally via the CBA Loop app on your smartphone. This can be sourced from the Google Play store and installed on your mobile phone so that your bank is within your reach everywhere you go.

"It is so convenient to use the application software once installed on your smartphone, I often use it to send money and it ensures that all my payments are made electronically to avoid the fraud that might be witnessed in cash dealings,” says Annette, a client.

Loop also enables you to keep an eye on your spending -For instance, if purchasing clothes, you will first have to fill a form indicating why you are making the transaction. The app checks if your request holds water before giving you the green light to access your monies.

With the Loop app on your phone comes convenience - You can make payments to an array of service providers ranging from electricity (KPLC), water(Nairobi water, airtime(Safaricom, Airtel, Telkom) and even DSTV. The application links directly to mobile money and ensures you make secure payments to your preferred service providers at a small cost of around Ksh. 42. Isn’t this awesome, paying your bills directly from your bank account without having to physically go to the bank. 

Loans at the touch of a button – With this kind of technology, one doesn't have to make long queues in banks when in need of financial assistance in the form of loans. You will simply have to log into your Loop application using your smartphone, at the taskbar which is towards the bottom, click on loans and you can choose between a personal loan and overdraft. It is this easy!

Easier card replacement – We all could misplace important documents and cards at times. Albeit this, Loop offers a more convenient methodology to have your debit card replaced as soon as possible should you lose it. In case of a misplaced card, simply make a replacement card request from your Loop app or web address. Log in to the loop app or web and select “request for a replacement card” and select the card you want to replace.

 Photo Courtesy: CBA Loop application on phone

Promptly block and unblock your card – In case someone made away with your card, then this can be fixed. There is no cause for alarm; simply go to the Loop app or web and assign a "block" status. In case your card is lost or damaged; apply the same procedure to have it blocked so that no one can access your monies. To also unblock your card, go to the Loop app or web and select "activate" if you had previously blocked it. 

Spending which spends on you – Loop is more like a financial management tool, which rewards your smart financial moves. Loop surprises its clients when they use some specific features within the app, for example, the Loop invests, setting goals and this enables you to spend wisely. It monitors your spending to make sure you do not out of your way making unnecessary purchases.

         Photo Courtesy: NCBA Loop Bank Logo

Loop corner in case you get stuck – With the app comes some rare convenience. Working around it is easy, but of course, not everyone is technology savvy. If clients get a hard time using the application, then the Loop corner can be of assistance. Here, one can get useful tips on Loop functionality, and answers to frequently asked questions. 

“We understand calls are not everybody’s cup of tea, raise a query from the same help corner and immediately obtain a ticket number to confirm your problem is being looked into by our Loop crew,” says a Loop agent from CBA Loop Mombasa.



 

Wednesday 9 January 2019

NPS BECRY OFFICERS' MEAGRE ALLOWANCE INCREMENT.




National police service officers who occupy government houses in wide array of police camps shall be categorically required to pay rent and cater for their own utilities and service costs. This recent move that cuts all forces ecompassing Kenya prisons service, Administrative police, K.W.S, regular police, General service unit among other cadres of units has witnessed a foggy and vague disquiet engulf the workforce that makes our Kenya's police.

Campuserian learns that a go - slow is privy and imminent as officers are seriously offended by the unscrupulous monies which do not before their standards of their lives and those of their loved ones.

"I have been working for the government since '82. I'm am as we speak on the verge of cruising promptly into retirement. What is 15,000 for a Sergeant of prisons like me. It is only 5 years to my retirement. I have a family. Shall the above figure cater for my already grown family of 4. In the present time... This is should be a joke and we feel shortchanged," reiterated a Sergeant whose name is withheld on grounds of anonymity. The worthy Kenyan officer is a sergeant at King'orani prison, Mombasa Remands home.

Officers cruising in pay grade "12" (senior cadre - senior assistant inspector general) based within the metropolitan Nairobi will duly pocket sh. 63,646.

Privy, it is of worth to note that out of an estimated 100,000 blue uniformed police officers, only the ones above inspector rank earn house allowances as it stands currently.

 One letter (signal) in police parlance from the police HQ to regional directors postulates that officers will start receiving house and commuter allowances from December. Albeit the ceremonious signal, chief afandes do believe that whatever they are getting from the government is minute as to withstand the current real estate market presently.

The disbursement of the aforementioned allowances shall be on grounds and merit of rank and position.

"The new rates of house allowances which will be implemented with effect from December 1," affirmed a letter backdropped to be scribbled on Friday and signed by Mr. Larry Kieng' - director of the Kenya Police Service.

Grade, common a terminology as job group(1-15) and the region of deployment come in handy and the new rates of house allowance shall be based on those.

The letter also indicates that police officers occupying houses inside the famous 'kambis' shall be required to immediately vacate the government houses once the salaries are adjusted and fend for their own houses, utilities and service cost.

"If we are to vacate government houses within major cities the likes of Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu; then it becomes father worse a situation. You cannot find a house from CBD. Peculiarly, the rates of houses in Central Business District especially Nairobi do not match with the peanut allowances weather are being offered. This is  shortchanging at it's best," reiterates Peter Njuguna, a Kenya Prisons Service police sergeant at Mombasa Remands Home.

Those with larger families also grieve that the amount possibly shall not allow one to find a plausible residence; since it is too meagre too little.

"I have 3 kids and one wife to my belt. Even a queer 12,000 will not be enough to facilitate our housing. In this Kenya if ours, where really shall I land a rental residential 3 bedroom house with enough space for my family and house maid at 12,000 a price? I presume nowhere," reiterates Albert Santa Gideon, also a regular police corporal, Tononoka police station, Mombasa.

Albeit all the debacle, interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang'i has defended the housing and commuter allowances for police officers. He says the figures we're arrived at after hefty consultations.

"We were advised by SRC, Treasury and PSC who determined the allowances. They also introduced commuter allowances. They were never there before," said the C's.

Beside the commuter and house allowance, the close to  100,000 officers shall receive supplimebtation allowance, to cater for their electricity and water bills among others.

Those working in operational units shall be paid supplements. Most officers do not live with their families at their operational matrices. So the monies we shall give them shall be used to fend for shelter of their families away from the government houses in places they already are housed." Said Charles Owino, National police spokesman in an interview on K24 TV at 7:21 PM Saturday interview with Mwanaisha Chidzuga.

An internal memo dated December 13 says the monies will be paid starting December 1.

"This applicable allowances at the stated rates include house and commuter allowance as well as housing supplimentation which will be paid effective December 1, 2018," reads the memo.

The government initially had planned to pay police officers' constables in Nairobi upto ksh. 18,124 per month, and ksh. 13,124 for constables from Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Meru and Uasin Gishu. Other counties would have their own constables receive ksh.8,124.

The lower cadre officers - constables and corporals will now get ksh.9,500 as house allowance for those in Nairobi and ksh. 4000 as commuter allowance.

Similar rank officers in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Thika, Malindi, Kisii, Eldoret, Kakamega and Kitale will earn ksh. 7,000 while those in other regions will get ksh. 5,500.

A Nairobi sergeant will earn ksh. 9,800 as house allowance, ksh. 4000 as commuter allowance. Those in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Eldoret, Thika, Kisii, Malindi ostensibly shall be set to recieveksh. 7,300 and other regions ksh. 5,700.




A gruesome amount of ksh. 15,700 for house allowance and ksh. 4,000 for commuter allowance is likely to be fished out to a senior sergeant of police in Nairobi.
"Many officers are complaining on matters their delayed December payslips. Albeit this, what we reassure them is that when they come out, the changes shall have duly been effected there in and allowances credited," affirms Charles Owino.