Category Archives: Card Review
SBI Simply Save Credit Card Review
SBI Simply Save credit card is yet another entry-level credit card from SBI. If one imagines the Simply Save and Simply Click credit cards as the actors in the popular sitcom Two and a Half Men Simply Save would be the poor younger brother Alan Harper and Simply Click would be the popular and suave Charlie Harper.
What makes the Simply Save credit card poor Alan Harper? Read on to find out.
Paytm First Credit Card Detailed Review
Paytm in collaboration with Citibank has launched Paytm First credit card, an entry-level card targeting existing Paytm users. Now, Paytm being a Payments Bank cannot offer lending products such as credit card on its own. Thus, it had to launch this Paytm First credit card as a co-branded card with Citibank.
SBI Simply Click Credit Card Review
SBI Simply Click credit card is an entry-level credit card targeting online spenders. This card provides 10X reward points with many popular online websites such as Amazon, BookMyShow, Cleartrip etc. Further, it provides 5X reward points for other online spends. Let’s have a detailed look at SBI Simply Click credit card and compare the same with ICICI Bank’s Amazon credit card.
RBL Zomato Credit Cards – Detailed Review
RBL Bank and Zomato has launched Edition co-branded credit cards in partnership with Mastercard. These co-branded credit cards are targeted towards regular Zomato users and promise a reward rate of 5%-10% on Zomato orders. Not to forget the complimentary Zomato Gold membership on these credit cards. Here is everything one needs to know about these Edition credit cards.
6E Rewards Ka-Ching credit cards by HDFC & Indigo
HDFC & Indigo airlines have launched 2 6E Rewards Ka-Ching credit cards. Ka-Ching??? what’s that? Well, HDFC Bank says it is the sound of cash. Okay, we will take their word for it. 😀 The Ka-Ching credit cards come in 2 variants, 6E Rewards, the base variant (annual fee INR700) and 6E Rewards XL the premium variant (annual fee INR2500).
Let’s see how good the Ka-Ching credit cards are and how they fare with other co-branded airline credit cards.
New SBI Landmark credit cards launched
SBI Card in the runup to its IPO has launched new co-branded credit cards with Landmark group. While SBI Card and Landmark has launched 9 credit cards in all, actually they are just 3 cards (Prime, Select and Base variant). What SBI and Landmark have done is launched 3 credit cards under each of their brands Lifestyle Home Centre, Max and Spar. Landmark group owns the Lifestyle, Home Centre, Max and Spar brands in India. The features and offers on the cards are all the same for a given variant. Let’s have a look at these cards variant wise.
Amex SmartEarn Credit Card Review
Amex SmartEarn credit card is an entry-level offering from American Express, it comes with low annual fees and low annual spend threshold for fee waiver. This card is primarily targeted towards the masses, who want to own a American Express credit card, but don’t want to pay high annual fees or don’t want to spend a lot using credit cards. Here is everything you need to know about the card.
IRCTC SBI Credit Cards – Review
SBI Card seems to be on a product-launching spree, thanks to the upcoming IPO. They have now launched IRCTC SBI Premier credit card. This new credit card along with IRCTC SBI Platinum credit card are probably the only credit cards in India targeting frequent travelers of Indian Railways.
If one recalls, SBI had recently launched two co-branded credit cards, SBI Club Vistara Prime and SBI Club Vistara, in partnership with Air Vistara.
Best Travel Credit Cards in India for 2020
After writing on Air Vistara credit cards last week, I thought of figuring out the best travel credit cards available in India. Simply because when we go on vacation or travel, the single largest expense is the flight cost.
While there are only 2 full-service domestic airlines in India that offer air-miles, the travel credit cards space has lot more choices thanks to few international airlines offering co-branded credit cards locally and few card issuers who allow conversion of reward points to air-miles of multiple airlines.
Of all the travel credit cards available in India, I have listed the best 5 cards below. For others, I have made a comparison table to indicate why they did not make the cut.
Air Vistara credit cards – Detailed comparison
Air Vistara has recently launched two new co-branded credit cards in tie-up with SBI. The SBI Club Vistara Prime credit card and SBI Club Vistara credit card. Given that Air Vistara already has three credit cards in tie-up with Axis Bank. The Axis Bank Air Vistara Infinite credit card, Axis Bank Air Vistara Signature credit card and Axis Bank Air Vistara Platinum credit card. The launch of these new cards is an opportune time to compare and see which cards are best suited.
