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40% faster withdrawals at HDFC Bank ATMs

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The classical definition of an ATM – Automated Teller Machine or Any Time Money as we know it largely is all set to change, Thanks to HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank customers would have seen this change the last time they stepped into the ATM. What HDFC Bank has done is introduced the ...

IDBI Fortis educates about life value

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

IDBI Fortis certainly seems to have a penchant for using caricatures in animated form for their website. The have already gone with Shenshah (ala Amitab Bacchan fame) and a parody of the indomitable Rajneekant. This time they have come allong with Happy Singh and Lucky Singh the imaginary Sardar dou who feature in many jokes. The ...

The Power of Search – Utilized or Under-Utilized by BFSI Sector?

Monday, October 5th, 2009

We all are aware of the tremendous potential that SEM – Search Engine Marketing provides. I define SEM as the most important right vertical corner on Google. In March 2009, Google alone handles 293 Million Search per day. Unlike all avenues of Marketing which are ‘Push’ by nature, Search is a ...

Religare Aegon’s digital baby is eyecatching

Monday, September 7th, 2009

After all the soppy ads from HDFC Standard Life about the father promising to build a corpus for his young girl and Max New York Life where pushy parents want more of their prodigal baby... Here is a cute one from Religare Aegon. The commercial begins with an 18 month old baby ...

Credit Cards show a downwards trend

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Banks have been turning cautious about lending for some time now. Most of us will be relieved that the pesky callers offering you unsolicited loans and ‘free’ credit cards have done a disappearing act. Consumer credit is no longer available over the counter. More checks have come in place ...

FEATURE: Comparative study of online insurance websites

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Online insurance sales have been growing and so have portals that sell insurance online. Online sales take place through two major channels…direct sales by the insurers and through online insurance portals which offer you a bouquet of products from various insurers. General insurance companies market their products online since the product is ...

ICICI Bank uses SRK to shore up deposits

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

ICICI Bank has launched an offer where all those who open an account with ICICI Bank would get a Chak De VCD and a watch signed by Shahrukh Khan. The movie that had a hard hitting theme had managed to strike a chord with people and the term ‘Chak De’ had ...

Top UK Banks not using Google Adwords as a traffic driver

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

On May 5 2008, Google liberalised its policy on competitive brand bidding - allowing any brand to bid for search traffic generated by a competitor's brand terms. Harvest Digital has conducted a first round of research across 100 leading brands in all major sectors looking at searches on the key brand ...

Dhanax & Rangde among Top 20 P2P Lending Sites

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The Peer-to-Peer lending industry blog, P2P-Banking.com, has recently published a list of P2P Lenders and their respective loan volumes from around the world. Nor surprisingly, 3 of the top sites are from the US. However, in what marks a proud presence of India on the global online finance map is ...

Choose Your Insurance Policy Online

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Policybazaar.com is a website launched to cater to most of our insurance needs. In today’s market, where there are so many insurance policies, this site helps you to compare the policies on many factors and helps you to make a decision. Moreover it also caters to different domains – Car insurance, Life ...