Tag: Sumant Kathpalia

  • IndusInd Bank launches new Ad Campaign on innovative ‘Fingerprint Banking’

    IndusInd Bank launches new Ad Campaign on innovative ‘Fingerprint Banking’

    MUMBAI: IndusInd Bank has ‘ launched an integrated advertising campaign to unveil its innovative service ‘Fingerprint Banking’. IndusInd Bank is the first bank in the country to launch this service where customers can do end-to-end banking transactions on its Mobile Banking app ‘IndusMobile’, by using just their fingerprint. The campaign features Farhan Akhtar, brand endorser for IndusInd Bank and multitalented actor Boman Irani.

    ‘Fingerprint Banking’ service has been launched after studying consumer behavior & insights on remembering complicated & lengthy passwords. It was found that customers tend to forget their passwords and resetting them again was a lot of trouble. With fingerprint banking, consumers can afford to forget passwords forever.

    Apart from fingerprint, the mobile banking App also has functionality of ‘Swipe Pattern’ which can be set as a security identifier to conduct mobile banking transactions. This ensures that customers across all smart phone devices can do their banking transactions seamlessly without entering passwords.

    Launching the campaign, Mr. Sumant Kathpalia, Head – Consumer Banking, IndusInd Bank said, “This advertising campaign from IndusInd Bank embodies a blend of strong consumer insight and interesting slice of life situations with subtle humor. The launch of this service has further strengthened the core brand philosophy of Responsive Innovation. We are glad that Bollywood’s two seasoned actors have associated with us and have enhanced the effectiveness of this ad campaign”.

    Mr. Ankur Suman, Principal Consultant & Creative Head, RK Swamy BBDO commented “As always, IndusInd Bank has come up with yet another unique, differentiated service. So the communication needs to be potent enough to create the right degree of buzz amongst consumers. While we have demonstrated the convenience of Fingerprint Banking clearly, we have retained the zippy energy and humour that have given the brand’s communication a distinguished identity over the years.”

    IndusInd Bank has adopted a well synergized multimedia media approach for this campaign. While TV will be the lead medium of the campaign, effective digital media will engage and connect with the digital savvy audience. Other mediums will also be used along with the key mediums in order to create a ‘surround sound’ of the communication. The estimated media spends of the ad campaign is approximately Rs. 15 crores.

    In recent past, IndusInd Bank has launched a host of innovative services like Video Branch, My Account My Number, Choice Money ATMs, Check-on-cheque, Cash-on-Mobile, Direct Connect and Quick Redeem Service. All these unique services have been widely publicised and are being well appreciated & used by the Indian consumers.

    Brand Awards – recent accolades:
    Moved up 6 ranks, to 13th place from 19th place of last year, makes us the Top Riser in the ‘BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands of 2015’ as adjudged by WPP and Millward Brown. Our brand value has increased by 46% to $1.5 billion since last year and we are also the sixth largest gainer in Brand Value. IndusInd Bank has been recently recognised & adjudged as one of the Best BFSI Brands 2016 by the Economic Times, one of the leading publications of the country.

  • IndusInd Bank launches new Ad Campaign on innovative ‘Fingerprint Banking’

    IndusInd Bank launches new Ad Campaign on innovative ‘Fingerprint Banking’

    MUMBAI: IndusInd Bank has ‘ launched an integrated advertising campaign to unveil its innovative service ‘Fingerprint Banking’. IndusInd Bank is the first bank in the country to launch this service where customers can do end-to-end banking transactions on its Mobile Banking app ‘IndusMobile’, by using just their fingerprint. The campaign features Farhan Akhtar, brand endorser for IndusInd Bank and multitalented actor Boman Irani.

    ‘Fingerprint Banking’ service has been launched after studying consumer behavior & insights on remembering complicated & lengthy passwords. It was found that customers tend to forget their passwords and resetting them again was a lot of trouble. With fingerprint banking, consumers can afford to forget passwords forever.

    Apart from fingerprint, the mobile banking App also has functionality of ‘Swipe Pattern’ which can be set as a security identifier to conduct mobile banking transactions. This ensures that customers across all smart phone devices can do their banking transactions seamlessly without entering passwords.

    Launching the campaign, Mr. Sumant Kathpalia, Head – Consumer Banking, IndusInd Bank said, “This advertising campaign from IndusInd Bank embodies a blend of strong consumer insight and interesting slice of life situations with subtle humor. The launch of this service has further strengthened the core brand philosophy of Responsive Innovation. We are glad that Bollywood’s two seasoned actors have associated with us and have enhanced the effectiveness of this ad campaign”.

    Mr. Ankur Suman, Principal Consultant & Creative Head, RK Swamy BBDO commented “As always, IndusInd Bank has come up with yet another unique, differentiated service. So the communication needs to be potent enough to create the right degree of buzz amongst consumers. While we have demonstrated the convenience of Fingerprint Banking clearly, we have retained the zippy energy and humour that have given the brand’s communication a distinguished identity over the years.”

    IndusInd Bank has adopted a well synergized multimedia media approach for this campaign. While TV will be the lead medium of the campaign, effective digital media will engage and connect with the digital savvy audience. Other mediums will also be used along with the key mediums in order to create a ‘surround sound’ of the communication. The estimated media spends of the ad campaign is approximately Rs. 15 crores.

    In recent past, IndusInd Bank has launched a host of innovative services like Video Branch, My Account My Number, Choice Money ATMs, Check-on-cheque, Cash-on-Mobile, Direct Connect and Quick Redeem Service. All these unique services have been widely publicised and are being well appreciated & used by the Indian consumers.

    Brand Awards – recent accolades:
    Moved up 6 ranks, to 13th place from 19th place of last year, makes us the Top Riser in the ‘BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands of 2015’ as adjudged by WPP and Millward Brown. Our brand value has increased by 46% to $1.5 billion since last year and we are also the sixth largest gainer in Brand Value. IndusInd Bank has been recently recognised & adjudged as one of the Best BFSI Brands 2016 by the Economic Times, one of the leading publications of the country.

  • RK Swamy BBDO launches new TVC for IndusInd Bank

    RK Swamy BBDO launches new TVC for IndusInd Bank

    MUMBAI: IndusInd Bank has launched a new TV campaign featuring Bollywood actor Sharman Joshi. The ad film has emphasised on the latest innovative idea of the brand ‘My Account, My Number‘.

    This new service empowers the customers to choose the Bank account number of their choice for the account they wish to open with the Bank. Now customers can choose up to 10 of 12 digits according to their choice.

    The TV commercial showcases Sharman Joshi obsessed with the ‘number 30‘ whether it is his clothing, his son‘s marks on the report card or the AC‘s temperature while watching a cricket match as he believes the number 30 will be lucky for him, but he wishes to have an account number of his own choice.

    Commenting on the development, IndusInd Bank head consumer banking Sumant Kathpalia said, “My Account, My Number is an extension on IndusInd bank‘s theme of ‘Responsive Innovation‘ and a further reinforcement of our commitment to offer best-of-class services in the industry. This service is an outcome of extensive consumer research and a clear need-gap that was identified over a period of time. We feel that there is a growing market for this innovative proposition considering the fascination towards special /favourite numbers.

    Recently, we have launched a series of market first services -‘Choice Money ATM‘, ‘Cash-on-Mobile‘, ‘Direct Connect‘, ‘Check on Cheque‘ and ‘Quick Redeem‘ services which have set a new benchmark in the Indian banking industry,” added Kathpalia.

    IndusInd Bank head – marketing and communication Mohit Ganju said, “IndusInd Bank has been credited with setting new standards in the Indian banking industry. The latest advertisement campaign incorporates strong consumer insights and the director, Gajraj Rao of Code Red films has used interesting situations to deliver the unique service message. The choice of casting Sharman Joshi and the subtle humour in the advertisement will definitely help us break the clutter and create some impactful communication. Through this advertisement campaign, we intend to create a strong brand recall and associate customer convenience with IndusInd Bank.”

    The campaign has been conceptualised and scripted by RK Swamy BBDO senior brand design director Ankur Suman. The agency has rolled out a 360 degree integrated marketing approach to propagate the service message. The campaign includes TV, Out-of-Home, Radio, Digital and Cinema. The advertisement will be on air for duration of eight weeks. The estimated media spend for the campaign is around Rs 15 crore.