ICICI Bank launches super premium credit card

Mumbai, Mar 21: The country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank today launched a credit card targeted at the super affluent. The card christened Sapphiro is the third offering in its Gemstone collection and is aimed at super affluent segment and the bank's wealth management clientele, the city-based bank said in a statement here.

Customers will get two different cards, one each from payment gateways American Express and MasterCard, but both will be linked to a single card account, it added. Details on who qualifies to get the card and membership charges, if any, were not specified by the bank in the statement.

"The Sapphiro takes the level of privileges for our super affluent and wealth management consumers several notches higher through the high-end experiential rewards on offer," managing director and chief executive Chanda Kochhar said.

Card users can joy privileges offered by Leading Hotels of the World, Atlantis the Palm, Dubai, and Air France-KLM and other offerings like Thursday night movie premieres, complimentary tee-offs at championship golf courses across the world and premium privileges across travel, shopping, wellness and entertainment, the statement said.

PTI