"Make the Axis Acquaintance" Blogadda Meet

Last Saturday I got the opportunity to visit the corporate office of Axis bank situated in the Bombay Dyeing Mills Compound. The purpose of the visit was to attend the "Make the Axis Acquaintance" bloggers meet hosted by Blogadda.

As I entered the Axis Bank building I was amazed to see the classy interiors that made it look superb.

The security was of high class level. We were given a pass that was required for all the guests who entered the building. 

The meeting hall was on the 8th floor so me and my friend Ste quickly made our way to the floor.

We were a bit late and we regret on missing the initial part of the meet.

The agenda of the meet was the launch of the Axis Mobile App.

I loved the tagline which says - Axis Mobile, carry the bank in your pocket.

Now let me brief you in detail of the newly launched Axis Mobile App

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Axis mobile App is very simple, user-friendly, convenient and secure mobile banking application.

                                                  

Who all can use it?
All Axis bank customers with -:
1. Saving Account
2. Current Account
3. Only credit card owners.

What all you need to use it?
Just a mobile with following OS
1. Android
2. iOS
3. Windows
4. Mobile Web

         

Different Attractive features
1. This is the most amazing of all features, you can add a non Axis bank beneficiary in just a

    Min.
2. View all types of summary, be it account, bill, loan or card.
3. View and schedule bill payments
4. Set your transaction limit on the go in between Rs 50k to 10 lakhs.
5. Now these are really unique features
    a. convert your transactions to EMI.
    b. block and replace your cards.

6. And this one is my favorite, the redemption of reward points in form of cashbacks, discounts     and different offers on movie tickets, restaurants , brands etc.

                                   

Security features
1. You can onboard only with the bank registered mobile number.
2. Add beneficiaries using the 2FA security.
3. Switch your cards on/off instantly.
4. Option to get your app account terminated on your phone in case it is lost or stolen.
5. Daily transaction limit of Rs 30,000 for first 5 days after registration.

Personalized Experience
1. Find offers near you whenever you want.
2. Convert your credit card transactions to EMI with one single click.
3. Set your most frequent transactions as favorites.
4. Reorder the menu as per your choice.
5. View and Redeem edge loyalty points anytime.
6. Add photos for your accounts and beneficiaries.

During the presentation of the App we were free to ask questions and doubts.
I asked two questions -:

1. When the demat facility will be integrated in the App.
2. There should be a referral loyalty program under which people should be given

    extra reward points for referring a friend or relative to open account with Axis bank and 

    use their mobile App.

The Axis mobile bank team told that the above features will be integrated in their March or April release.

Also some other questions were asked, which included

1. When will be App be integrated with social media so that a user can login using Facebook         or Twitter.

2. How heavy is the App on memory.

The Axis team were on their toes to respond with satisfactory answers.

After the presentations and Q&A round was over, everyone headed towards the canteen for lunch.

Gulan Jamun and Gajar Halwa were among my favorites.

It was an interactive meet with lot of sharing and learning.
Axis Bank has brought a new innovation in the area of mobile banking.
I just loved the App and I am pretty sure that it is soon going to rule the future of mobile banking.

This post is about 'Make the Axis Acquaintance' meet conducted by Axis Bank in association with BlogAdda.com 

KotakJifi Indiblogger Meet : Now Experience banking via Social Media

I was waiting from a long time for an Indiblogger meet in Mumbai and when the KotakJifi meet was announced I quickly hopped on to it. What added to the excitement was it was first meet to be organised simultaneously across Mumbai, Bangalore & Delhi.

Informed all my blogger friends as I was so eager to meet them.
Agenda for the meet was the launch of new service by Kotak Mahindra Bank called Jifi.
Venue was Cafe Zoe in Lower Parel. It was an afternoon meet, commencing from 12 p.m. till 4.

It was a fresh Sunday morning!!
As planned I was going to meet Stephen, Monica & Vikrant at Andheri Station from where we were supposed to start for Cafe Zoe.
As usual everyone was on time expect Stephen who made us wait for half hour. I was so wanting to kill him for that along with Monica but we controlled our instincts.
Renu called to accompany and we had one more member added to our gang.

After reaching Lower Parel we walked our way to Cafe Zoe. Many veteran bloggers who were regular at Indimeets had already booked their seats. But we were eyeing the other members of our gang Karan, Rohan, Tapobrata, Vaisakhi, Deepti & Fatima. After scanning the complete venue we finally found them sitting at the upper floor. We walked upstairs and smiling faces greeted us.
It is so much fun when the complete gang is together.
Leg pulling, complementing each other's attire and clicking pics started in no time.

Our host for the day Anoop from Indiblogger announced free drinks and in no time bar was flooded with people, everyone wanting to get their booze first.
After all were settled with their drinks , twitter contest made its way.
It was simple, click a selfie with most no of people in it and walk away with vouchers & goodies.

Anoop as usual was a great host who kept us entertaining till the secret chief guest took his position.
We were shown different videos and this time "Hudd Hudd" was replaced by the lyrics that were coming on the TV. We enjoyed cheering every word loud and with full passion & intensity.

Next we had to guess the chief guest's name. There were lots of wild guesses ranging from Actors to even Cricketers. Finally no one could guess the name correctly and our excitement reached a different level altogether.

When he finally appeared on the podium everyone was cheering for non other than Mr Chetan Bhagat.
He started with promotion of movie "2 States" which is adaptation of his novel by same name.
Next we were provided insides about Jifi through presentations & Videos.
Finally he introduced, Mr Manian, Country head for consumer banking at Kotak Mahindra.
We were asked to tweet our questions regarding Jifi which he was going to answer.

The live streaming of event in Mumbai was made available to the bloggers in Bangalore & Delhi.
After the Q&A round we headed for lunch. There were not many options in veg which disappointed me specially.

After lunch Anoop announced another tweeter contest called Kotak Premier league where all were divided into 6 groups. Each group had to tweet about Jifi, how the experience of connecting banking with social media was different. We fell into group 6. Unfortunately we couldn't win but our friends won SPA vouchers.

Another Superb Indiblogger meet concluded successfully and not the forget the awesome Tees that were given by the Indi team at the end.

Lets now explore Jifi
1. Kotak Jifi bank account is not a traditional bank account but a new age socially & digitally synchronized account. It's a new age social banking which lets you do everything with your account just my being on social media.

2. Facebook & Twitter are the new platforms for anywhere-anytime access to your bank account and hassle-less transactions. You just need to be on facebook to open a brand new Jifi account.

3. You can receive banking account updates via twitter & refer friends via Facebook.
4. So having more friends on FB is so beneficial for me as every referral earns me reward points.
    Also every time you like or comment on Facebook you get reward points.
    You transact online and you get more reward points.
    The more you are social the more you earn points.
    This loyalty points can be used in shopping, entertainment activities like movies & dinning purposes.

5.  No minimum balance, no tension. As kotak Jifi account comes with no minimum balance feature it
     allows you to shop & dine without giving a second thought about your balance.
6.  Kotak Money Watch -:
     Do you want a feature that keeps track of your expenditure as you spend a lot on shopping and
     other activities, then money watch is for you.
     You can connect your bank accounts to it and see the net worth, calculate taxes & keep track of all
     the expenses and bills.
7.  Balance above Rs 25,000 is converted into term deposit.
     Now this is an add on. No minimum deposit was a special feature which gets integrated with this,
     adding on to your money.
8. Platinum Debit Card -:
   With your Jifi account comes the Platinum debit card which is packed with lot of features.
    Every time you do shopping or online transactions you earn points and can easily redeem them.

So everything on your Jifi account is just a tweet away.
I am hooked to this idea of social banking and feels that Kotak Jifi account is more a youngster like me.
I would recommend to definitely get ours or become my friend on FB and I will send you the invite..:)
Till next meet CYA..TC