I am standing in front of the main Gulf Bank building in Kuwait City and I can count 12 money truck parked in front of it. There are also a ton of security guards (probably the money truck drivers) all standing on the side of the building waiting. I can’t tell if they are moving money in our about to get ready to move money out but my uneducated guess is they are probably getting ready to move money to their branches around Kuwait. I took a picture which I will post here once I get back home.
update: Just added the picture to the post
19 replies on “Money money money”
comeon mark where’s the pic 😛
They’re probably going to delay delivery after seeing a complete stranger take a picture of them >_> Assuming they saw you.
I’m tired of this story. Yes, we know…………GBK is in trouble. Let’s move on!!
probably the Al Danah millionaire dough!! loll…:P
Agree with Randy. Lets boycott Mc Donald and drive prices down.
I am still reluctant whether to withdraw my 50KD in Al Dana account or to leave but after all I really don’t want to heavily affect the bank performance you know !
omg stop posting about gulfbank
BOYCOTT MCDONALDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP INFLATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP EATING JUNK FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOYCOTT TSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY (ahem…) SAVE IT……
No these are decoys, actually they dont have any money to send anywhere, the real trucks are parked outside CBK. 🙂
Heartbeat,
Leave the 50 KD there. You just might win, cos you may have a chance now that everyones taken money out of GB. :p
https://www.alqabas.com.kw/Article.aspx?id=442253&date=28102008
C’mon you guys…the educated mass has to be really stupid to believe that Gulf Bank suddenly figured out that an over budgeted derivative deal was not covered and now because of the global crisis, they are taking advantage of allowing customers to make such deals where they can turn around and say “Dont worry, because of whats happening in the world financial markets, we can say that it was a poorly analyzed deal; and Central Bank will HAVE to cover us…so chill baby!
***This part is for people in Finance***
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Win Win situations !!!…. PEOPLE WILL KNOW SOME DAY!!!…
The technicalities that were overlooked during the implementation of a financial model by a fcukin COMPUTER!!!!..I mean c’mon…. Instead of trying not to repeat history,(Eco depression in the US)..they are repeating it as a covert operation and throwing their hands up in the air when the sh1t hits the fan.
Believe what you want that is fed to us by the media but I have this to say:
“THERE ARE NO STOCK CRASHES, NO SURPRISES, NO ACCIDENTS, NO UNCALCULATED DISASTERS………..
JUST SOME GREAT PLANNING!!! “……..
@toni, I usually dont hook up with conspiracy theorists, but this is more transparent than cling wrap!!!… People have to be educated and I feel they will at some point in time.
Not sure if this is true, but I just heard that Bassam Al Ghanim resigned.
@Thomas : OK.Thomas,Why don’t you tell us who planned it?.
Did I hear a ‘No Idea’ ?. So stop throwing crap around that you have no idea about.Think you should re-read what ever you are reading…
@Farid, Bassam has resigned and just heard that Qutayba Al Ghanim is taking over……(To be confirmed..)
@klk, Dude….I’m not pushing the idea into your chain of thought…just something for everyone to think about.
1) Why would CBK allow uncovered deals?;
2) Why is it that GBK clients were not advised about Lehman deals..?and why just now?;
3) Why would the Bank allow clients to perform (un)covered forex derivative deals during a time like this?.. don’t they have analysts sitting in and churning out models?
Outcome>>>Kuwait’s central bank proposes a bill to the parliament to guarantee deposits in the country’s commercial banks. From now on, CBK will have all the Bank’s by their nuts……
…… No idea?…me too.
So its not ALL crap… dont you think there might be some truth in there?
Gulf Bank may have losses of as much as 200 million dinars ($746 million) on the trades
They were sending money to the Branches…I am 110% sure.
Since there were so many w/d’s that day and there is a limit to the amount of money per a branch.
@Everyone…………..It must now be horribly clear to everybody with an investment portfolio – indeed, to anyone who watches the financial markets – that no country (Including Kuwait) or sector is safe from a bear market of the magnitude of the one we’re suffering through right now. When stocks get marked down en masse, as they have, literally everything drops. What’s more, there may be very little rationale for which stocks drop — or how much they drop by: When the wave of selling meets very few buyers, good stocks can easily fall more than bad ones. Keep this in mind!!!