HDFC News: April, 2016

AirAsia and HDFC Partners to Offer Attractive Fares:

AirAsia is providing a new and unique fare as they join hands with premier Indian private lender, HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank (credit and debit card users) can now get a distinct rebate of 20 percent on the base airfare when they buy tickets from the official website of AirAsia Berhad, AirAsia India, Thai AirAsia and AirAsiaX. This news was met with much approval from customers. 
This P.R. offer is effective for travel only between 1^st July and 30^th Sept 30 2016. Tourists can go to www.airasia.com/hdfcpromoto to book their seats. For domestic journeys, you can venture to places like Cochin, Goa, Chandigarh, Vishakhapatnam, Guwahati and Jaipur all leaving from Bengaluru and/ or Delhi. They can even go to topntch international spots like Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and most of South East Asia and Australia from India by AirAsias Group. Tickets can be booked via net banking (RTGS/ NEFT with IFSC Code), debit or credit card or e-wallet.The motto is to give everyone a chance to fly.

HDFC Joins Hands with Five Start-up Firms:

HDFC has picked as many as five start-ups to help them up their game by strengthening their online, mobile and payment contributions. The bank accepted these five from over 30 submissions at its Digital Innovation Meet conducted on 3^rd and 4^th March. The chosen presentations were those of Senseforth Technologies (handles AI consumer response), Tagnpin (an advertising and client engagement firm), Safe 2 Pay (a PoS free payment system), Bugclipper (an in-app feedback device) and Taptis Technology (a biometric payment firm). The bank had formerly partnered with Chillr, which had made six million USD from Sequoia Capital, where it modelled a system which aided users in making payment without wallets. The bank’s country head, Mr. Nitin Chugh, stated that these measures are required to invite novel and user-friendly ideas into digital marketing arena. He accepts that some of the offered banking and payment solutions may not work. But it will definitely demystify the overall concept of it all.