Best Govt & Private Bank

icici is useful

1) app is user friendly 

2) u can get rupay platinum for apay offer

3) can get platinum card ltf

4) upi downtime is almost nil

5) support from bank is good (atleast at my location )

well iam using salary acc zero bal and i opened it only for creditcard but now using this as my primary acc, fully satisfied with icici , this is even better than HDFC 

BARODA – ICICI

hackerboys wrote:

icici is useful

1) app is user friendly 

2) u can get rupay platinum for apay offer

3) can get platinum card ltf

4) upi downtime is almost nil

5) support from bank is good (atleast at my location )

well iam using salary acc zero bal and i opened it only for creditcard but now using this as my primary acc, fully satisfied with icici , this is even better than HDFC 

fully agreed with all points ,

also they have great online customer support team.

reported failed txn with them day before yesterday and got refund yesterday  

all government banks are shit private hdfc and icici are good still want to chance with govt you can try BOB apart from SBI or OBC.

bohemian wrote:

BARODA – ICICI

Kindly put 5 reasons each why you like them

For psu bank, SBI for the reason below(can’t find additional 4 reasons, in fact I can’t find them for any psu bank)

1. best internet banking service among all psu banks & comparable/better than many pvt banks.

For pvt banks, go with ICICI

1. mobile banking app has probably the largest no. of options & services for any banking app in India.

2. heard better customer support compared to hdfc & axis.

3. good option for taking personal/business loans at good rates in future(hdfc personal loan rates varies depending on acc type & ironically the so called “premium tier” acc with 1 lakh+ mab actually have higher loan interest rate).

4. Probably the best reliability record for their online banking services compared to other banks.

5. They usually give good offers on accident & health insurance plans to existing customers at 10-20% discount over their normal rates & their accident & health insurance plans are good(myself availed this on the basis of having icici credit card though no bank acc with them).

How about Axis?

guest_999 wrote:

For psu bank, SBI for the reason below(can’t find additional 4 reasons, in fact I can’t find them for any psu bank)

1. best internet banking service among all psu banks & comparable/better than many pvt banks.

For pvt banks, go with ICICI

1. mobile banking app has probably the largest no. of options & services for any banking app in India.

2. heard better customer support compared to hdfc & axis.

3. good option for taking personal/business loans at good rates in future(hdfc personal loan rates varies depending on acc type & ironically the so called “premium tier” acc with 1 lakh+ mab actually have higher loan interest rate).

4. Probably the best reliability record for their online banking services compared to other banks.

5. They usually give good offers on accident & health insurance plans to existing customers at 10-20% discount over their normal rates & their accident & health insurance plans are good(myself availed this on the basis of having icici credit card though no bank acc with them).

ICICI cannot beat HDFC in customer support online or offline.
I am using HDFC for last 13yr and ICICI for 8yr. and used both account in multiple city. HDFC staff found very cooperative in any branch most of the time. and ICICI found uncooperative most of the time.
IDFC support is also good in private.

For public bank, choose bank which has branch near to you.

One of the con of icici banks is for transferring money you have to keep with you debit card each and every time for entering grid values even for smaller transactions which is a headache 

TigerZindaHay wrote:

One of the con of icici banks is for transferring money you have to keep with you debit card each and every time for entering grid values even for smaller transactions which is a headache 

It’s headache but the purpose is security only. It is not asking grid values everytime unless the merchant is new one.

5 minimum points ? bhai kaafi lamba time ho gaya nibandh likhe huye. 

romilq239 wrote:

5 minimum points ? bhai kaafi lamba time ho gaya nibandh likhe huye. 

5 points to likhna hai

For SBI-
1. Great Internet banking, easy to setup any service such as Sweep FD. ASBA facility available for IPO.
2. Good YONO mobile banking with cardless cash withdrawal
3. Integration with SBI card in YONO for basic credit card information
4. Integration with SBI Life, SBI AMC, SBI General insurance for premium / SIP payment right from single INB login.
5. Online NPS account facility
6. PPF account facility available
7. Payment of State / Central government taxes including income tax & stamp duty registration fees for property purchases
8. Form 15G/H facility online
9. SGB Investment online
10. Digi locker facility

And many other facilities in INB.

hackerboys wrote:

icici is useful

1) app is user friendly 

2) u can get rupay platinum for apay offer

3) can get platinum card ltf

4) upi downtime is almost nil

5) support from bank is good (atleast at my location )

well iam using salary acc zero bal and i opened it only for creditcard but now using this as my primary acc, fully satisfied with icici , this is even better than HDFC 

Does ICICI gives choice of a/c number, say first 4 digits followed by mobile number ? (HDFC does). No input from many dimers in this post. @TigerZindaHay @bohemian @Par_

Juniper wrote:

Does ICICI gives choice of a/c number, say first 4 digits followed by mobile number ? (HDFC does). No input from many dimers in this post. @TigerZindaHay @bohemian @Par_

Never take sbi insurance policy for anything.

https://www.desidime.com/discussions/sbi-arogya...

Juniper wrote:

Does ICICI gives choice of a/c number, say first 4 digits followed by mobile number ? (HDFC does). No input from many dimers in this post. @TigerZindaHay @bohemian @Par_

HDFC gives last 10 or 11 digit choice number but as far as i know it is only for some type of saving a/c only. you can confim while opening a/c.

MrKool_JJ wrote:

How about Axis?

Can you write 5 points in your justification!?

Juniper wrote:

Can you write 5 points in your justification!?

1. Axis edge rewards points are settled within a week or so in debit cards.
2. i don’t know if there is any limit like hdfc (they credit after 90 days) i have earned 5k+ reward points equivalent to 1000+ within a month and can redeem for vouchers.
3. Their app and internet banking is decent.
4. For me support was good never visited branch.
5. you get special rewards page where you can see which transaction earned how much rewards and which earned 0 unlike many other banks.
6. good offers on purchases.
7. they have their own portal similar to smartbuy.

vkrmjeet wrote:

1. Axis edge rewards points are settled within a week or so in debit cards.
2. i don’t know if there is any limit like hdfc (they credit after 90 days) i have earned 5k+ reward points equivalent to 1000+ within a month and can redeem for vouchers.
3. Their app and internet banking is decent.
4. For me support was good never visited branch.
5. you get special rewards page where you can see which transaction earned how much rewards and which earned 0 unlike many other banks.
6. good offers on purchases.
7. they have their own portal similar to smartbuy.

Seems interesting to me, first time hearing such positive response about axis bank account.

BBal wrote:

Seems interesting to me, first time hearing such positive response about axis bank account.

Yes i have axis,hdfc,icici,kotak,sbi etc and axis have best debit card reward system, kotak,icici is non existent.
sbi is okish.
hdfc is kind of bad because of that 90 days wait on millenia. there are other offerings but still prefer something like my axis card where u can virtually pay anywhere and don’t have to wait so much.
I have other accounts also but mentioned major ones.

Regarding credit card also i don’t think axis lacks anywhere. i have fk axis never faced any problem. their statement is best and most transparent but others are also good in this category except kotak.

vkrmjeet wrote:

Yes i have axis,hdfc,icici,kotak,sbi etc and axis have best debit card reward system, kotak,icici is non existent.
sbi is okish.
hdfc is kind of bad because of that 90 days wait on millenia. there are other offerings but still prefer something like my axis card where u can virtually pay anywhere and don’t have to wait so much.
I have other accounts also but mentioned major ones.

Regarding credit card also i don’t think axis lacks anywhere. i have fk axis never faced any problem. their statement is best and most transparent but others are also good in this category except kotak.

Axis support is absolutely horrible majority of time.Your case is an exceptional one. 

bhopali91355 wrote:

Axis support is absolutely horrible majority of time.Your case is an exceptional one. 

See equivalent to 1800rs for account opened in Feb.
still have 0 for account opened in JAn for hdfc.

Didn’t need support of any kind in both the accounts yet.

vkrmjeet wrote:

See equivalent to 1800rs for account opened in Feb.
still have 0 for account opened in JAn for hdfc.

Didn’t need support of any kind in both the accounts yet.

So, can you provide more details on the variant of Axis account and also is it salary account without any MAB requirements?

BBal wrote:

So, can you provide more details on the variant of Axis account and also is it salary account without any MAB requirements?

i have axis ASAP account earlier it was 10k Mab now i think they have increased it to 12k.
Not a salary account
Yes, they provide salary accounts with 0 mab requirements.

guest_999 wrote:

For psu bank, SBI for the reason below(can’t find additional 4 reasons, in fact I can’t find them for any psu bank)

1. best internet banking service among all psu banks & comparable/better than many pvt banks.

For pvt banks, go with ICICI

1. mobile banking app has probably the largest no. of options & services for any banking app in India.

2. heard better customer support compared to hdfc & axis.

3. good option for taking personal/business loans at good rates in future(hdfc personal loan rates varies depending on acc type & ironically the so called “premium tier” acc with 1 lakh+ mab actually have higher loan interest rate).

4. Probably the best reliability record for their online banking services compared to other banks.

5. They usually give good offers on accident & health insurance plans to existing customers at 10-20% discount over their normal rates & their accident & health insurance plans are good(myself availed this on the basis of having icici credit card though no bank acc with them).

International fund transfers is also very easy to transact and reliable.

Pvt banking software is complex af for foreign transfer where half of them require to you to goto bank or don’t even have that option

vkrmjeet wrote:

i have axis ASAP account earlier it was 10k Mab now i think they have increased it to 12k.
Not a salary account
Yes, they provide salary accounts with 0 mab requirements.

Did you get an e-mail about that?


My area is semi-urban, where MAB for Easy Access account in SEMI URBAN is 5k with initial funding of 6k.
Since I already had LTF FK axis card, I wasn’t able to open an account online.

Approached offline branch and they said to keep MAB 12k and initial funding of 16k.

Is there any way to check the required MAB in-app and is it possible to ask them to reduce MAB requirement to 5k instead of 12k?

TigerZindaHay wrote:

One of the con of icici banks is for transferring money you have to keep with you debit card each and every time for entering grid values even for smaller transactions which is a headache 

you can always use UPI

xxxyyyzzz wrote:

Did you get an e-mail about that?


My area is semi-urban, where MAB for Easy Access account in SEMI URBAN is 5k with initial funding of 6k.
Since I already had LTF FK axis card, I wasn’t able to open an account online.

Approached offline branch and they said to keep MAB 12k and initial funding of 16k.

Is there any way to check the required MAB in-app and is it possible to ask them to reduce MAB requirement to 5k instead of 12k?

no bro , didn’t get any kind of mail.
people on dd were saying the same.

MAB requirement depends upon branch if ur branch is semi urban or rural u have to maintain as per that.

There is no specific option in app to check that.

I don’t think so but once u open u can confirm the mab requirement via chat with axis agent and some have mentioned that they can change branch online also but wouldn’t suggest that.