Home
Apps
Apps News
HDFC Bank launches mobile banking app in Hindi

HDFC Bank launches mobile banking app in Hindi

By Press Trust of India | Updated: 5 April 2013 17:05 IST

Targeting 560-million Hindi-speaking population, the second largest private sector lender HDFC Bank today launched a mobile banking application in the national language.

Mobile banking services is part of the bank's overall strategy to use convergent communication platform to engage with customers, Senior Executive Vice-President for Direct Banking Channels and Premier Banking Birendra Sahu said here.

Today 82 per cent of all customer-initiated transactions happen on electronic channels, he said, adding therefore the bank has launched mobile banking solutions ranging from SMS banking, browser-based and application-based applications for smartphones.

There are around 565 million Hindi-speaking population in the country, he said.

He said the bank launched the English-language mobile banking in July-August last year and already has 12 lakh users, and with the Hindi option, the user base can touch 16 lakh soon.

Quoting a CyberMedia report, he said, Android phones constitute about 56.4 percent of the total 5.5 million smartphones sold in the first half of the year in the country.

Comments

For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.