Airtel Payments Bank (6% interest on deposits over 1 lakh)

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Airtel Payments Bank starts pilot services in Rajasthan | India Live Today

 

[Sai]

Why so much faith on UID Aadhaar ?.

 

[Sushubh]

>7% interest is cool. I opened a Yes Bank account for mom specifically for 6% interest!

I might end up getting an Aadhaar Card specifically for this purpose. I need a better mobile banking app.

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Why so much faith on UID Aadhaar ?.

AADHAR has become most favorite ID proof nowadays 😛 Its just an Bank account and using e-KYC would reduce lot of paperwork.

@Sushubh Can we trust Airtel is the big question.

 

[Sushubh]

I would actually wait for Paytm. Airtel mobile apps are crap. My primary purpose would be to get access to a better banking app. Yes Bank recently overhauled their mobile app and the new app is another crapfest.

 

[Sai]

Paytm has temporarily withdrawn their payments bank application if the rumor is to be believed. Few very reliable Twitter accounts are saying so.

Paytm and others may have the capability to churn out apps with nice UI. But they lack in everything else. My bet for the best payments bank in India is on India Post. Their capabilities are endless. If they know how to utilize it properly. India's (or world's ?) largest banking + logistics network, insurances, added services, physical presence for rural population and lot of capital. They have everything. Only thing pending is their own ecommerce portal.

 

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[Sushubh]

They can't even run tracking of speed post properly.

 

[Sai]

Wait for the full-scale rollout of their new software infrastructure. Will be done in 2017. One can not really run virtual banks. Rural people flock Post Offices almost everyday. They will blindly open account with IPPB as its govt bank. Airtel can forget getting customers in rural regions. Rural people do not trust their cellular service due to their backdoor balance deductions for prepaid customers. I don't think they will trust Airtel for keeping deposits.

I know its not easy to loot bank clients like they do for their cellular subscribers. But rural people will not understand it. Airtel is a chor company in their mind and any product associated with Airtel will remain as chor only.

 

[Sushubh]

with 1 lakh rupee limit, these payment banks are not really an option for well someone like me. but it is still a good option for a backup account. deposit extra funds. benefit from high interest rate. use it for wallet transactions.

 

[Sai]

I plan to open one with India Post. Especially for low value shopping and bill payments. People will get account done with them just for paying electricity,telephone and water bills online.

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Right now India post is recruiting Assistant managers, once they get transformed to a full bank it will be worth opening an account there.

 

[Sushubh]

Airtel’s Payment Bank: 7.5 Percent Interest and Other Things to Know

Payments banks are not allowed to offer loans, or offer credit cards. The payments banks can also only invest the money people deposit in government securities.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Airtel Payments Bank Offers Talktime Equal to Deposits in New Savings Accounts

Airtel Payments Bank will be giving customers talktime equivalent to the money deposited in their new savings account on their Airtel number.

The talktime can be used to make calls all anywhere in India. The offer is only for deposits made in the bank for the first time. The company said that the validity of the talk time will be only for 30 days.

 

[Sushubh]

lol. what is the fup on that?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Airtel Payments Bank will charge 0.65% on cash withdrawals

Airtel Payments Bank says that it will impose a 0.65% cash withdrawal fee on transactions for its account holders in order to discourage them to use cash. However, the payments bank will not charge any processing fee from its customers and merchants partners for digital transactions.

Currently, Airtel Payments Bank offers 7.25 % per annum on deposits in savings accounts and a customer’s Airtel mobile number will be their bank account number. It also offers personal accidental insurance of Rs 1 lakh with every savings account.