ICICI mobile banking app now offers cardless cash withdrawal in ATMs

MUMBAI: ICICI Bank has upgraded its mobile banking app ‘iMobile’ by taking the total number of services that the users can avail of to over 100, the most by any Indian bank. A host of the new services are unprecedented in the industry.

Rajiv Sabharwal, Executive Director, ICICI Bank said, “It offers more than 100 services with many industry first features across banking. We expect mobile banking to continue to grow at a rapid pace, giving us a larger scope to promote its usage among both urban and rural customers.”

iMobile is available on all mobile platforms including Android, iOS, Java, Windows and Blackberry. The upgraded app is available for download on Google Play store and Apple app store. The features of the ‘all new iMobile’ include:

• Convenient choice of login: Customers can now choose the type of login they would want to use for iMobile app. They can either use a PIN based access or use their existing internet banking user id and password

• Integrated view: iMobile allows customers to link and view all their ICICI Bank relationships (accounts/mortgages/cards/PPF) from within the app

• Direct calls to bank’s call center: It connects customers directly with the call center without having to authenticate themselves any further

• Integration with ‘Google Now’: Customers will get alerts and notifications on the payment due date of their credit card, maturity of their FD among others through ‘Google Now’

• Cardless cash withdrawal: Customers can now send money to anyone in the country, even if the beneficiary does not have a bank account from the ‘all-new-iMobile’ itself. The beneficiary can then withdraw the money from ICICI Bank ATMs without using a debit card.

• Open ‘iWish’ deposits: Using the iMobile app, customers can create iWish, a flexible and online recurring deposit, as well as make goal payments

Additionally, customers can also use iMobile to update their passbook, apply for personal loans, auto loans and home loans, access their loan statement, tax certificate, EMI schedule, pay utility bills and instantly blocking a debit or credit card card from the app itself. Transactions like funding a PPF account, checking PPF statements or checking the recent transactions can also be carried out.