HDFC Bank, the country’s second largest private sector bank, unveiled its banking application for the Apple Watch. The app allows its customers to view their account summaries, block cards, recharge their mobile phones and DTH connections.
The Apple Watch app will work when paired via Bluetooth on iPhone 5 and above versions. HDFC Bank said that it is developing a wearables application for the Android operating system by this year.
Customers will be allowed about 10 kinds of transactions, including account information (on savings, current, fixed deposits), demat accounts, mutual funds and credit cards, mobile and DTH recharge, request account statements and cheque books, locate the closest ATM and bank branch, view messages from the bank and discount offers and hotlist lost debit cards, said Nitin Chugh, Senior Executive Vice President and Head - Digital Banking, HDFC Bank.