Axis Bank-Citi Deal: Know What It Means For Citi Debit, Credit Card Customers
News 18As the Axis Bank-Citi deal has got approval from the Competition Commission of India, the amalgamation has moved an inch towards merger reality. The Rs 12,325-crore deal involves the merger with Citi’s personal loans, credit cards and wealth management businesses that are focused on the affluent segment, with Axis Bank. Here’s what it means for customers: The deal includes the transfer of verticals like personal wealth management including portfolio managing and retail customer accounts segments from Citi India to Axis Bank, and credit cards are the major portion of the deal. Post the acquisition, Axis Bank will have 28.5 million savings accounts, over 2.3 lakh Burgundy customers and 10.6 million cards.” An Axis Bank official in an interview with Moneycontrol has said the issuance of credit cards should be scaled up from Q3 onwards. Obviously, at some point, by December or March, when the Citi portfolio gets added, it will be another 2.5 million cards,” Axis Bank Sanjeev Moghe said.