ICICI Bank Launches iMobile Smartkeys In India | TechTree.com

ICICI Bank Launches iMobile Smartkeys In India

The 'iMobile SmartKeys' service is the first in Asia, to allow banking through mobile keyboards, including money transfers, bill payments, and recharge services.

 

ICICI Bank has recently unveiled Asia’s first payment service using a smartphone keyboard. Named ‘iMobile SmartKeys’, this new feature enables ‘iMobile’ users to make quick and secure payments on any mobile application, including chat, messenger, email, games or search browser, without having to exit their current application on their smartphone.

This will be in place of the previous setup, whereby customers had to switch tabs or applications within their smartphone to access ‘iMobile’. This added feature provides the convenience of completing transactions in lesser steps than earlier, thereby reducing the overall transaction time.

The story behind the creation of the ‘iMobile SmartKeys’ solution, is that, it was developed by one of the winners at the ‘ICICI Appathon’, the country’s largest virtual mobile app development challenge, organized by ICICI Bank earlier this year. As a testimony towards nurturing young developers, ICICI Bank has incorporated this innovative solution into its mobile banking app within a quarter of the completion of the Appathon.

Also Read: Purchase On Flipkart Via Kotak Mahindra Mobile Banking App

Using ‘iMobile SmartKeys’, customers can transfer money to their registered beneficiaries, pay their utility bills as well as recharge their mobile numbers, which are classified as ‘Favourites’ in their iMobile app.

Users can access the ‘iMobile SmartKeys’ by long pressing the ‘globe icon’ on their smartphone keyboard while they are chatting, gaming, browsing the internet or even sending mails. This allows them to make payments without having to exit the current application, and launching another tab.

Available currently for iOS phones, this innovative feature will soon be made available on Android devices as well. On Android, it is being said that users can simply shake the phone while they are on any application screen to change the keyboard to ‘Smartkeys’.

Also Read: ICICI Bank Launches Next Gen Features On iMobile

B. Madhivanan, the Group Executive and Chief Technology & Digital Officer of ICICI Bank spoke about the motivation behind the feature launch, saying “ICICI Bank has always leveraged technology to pioneer digital innovations and provide world-class banking experience to its customers. Many of our innovations were path breaking initiatives even globally for instance banking on Facebook and Twitter, and Voice based recognition to name a few."

He also added, "We are delighted to introduce ‘iMobile SmartKeys’, which is a testimony to our continuing co-creation initiatives with innovative technopreneurs. We believe that this feature will deliver an unparalleled banking experience to our customers by enabling quick and secure payments without having to switch any tab or applications within their smartphones.”


TAGS: Press Release, ICICI, iMobile, Smartkeys

 
News Corner
IMP IMP IMP
##