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Premium Bank accounts to collect (usually with 0mab)

saucy

TF Legend
Planning to collect bank accounts as well?
Here are all the accounts you should look into.

0 MAB accounts will be added at the botton, because then it's not a collection, is it?

salary accounts not included yet - since they get 0 MAB pretty much everywhere except SC I guess🤔

Do let me know if it's possible to retain 0 MAB without getting salary in an account anymore.

P.s. please read this post till the end, most of the answers from the threads have been summarised/added here.

P.p.s pls do ask if there's some doubt
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ICICI BANK
Wealth Management account
  • free cibil score
  • cool black theme
  • welcome kit (chequebook purse, card, deposit slips, cheque book)
  • 0 amb
  • visa signature/ mc world
  • family banking
  • dedicated RM
  • direct conntection to agent when you call their helpline
  • pre-approved credit cards in a few months
- 1-5L IP cheque/neft. 3L has been reported by many members -- I personally got for 1L
- upgrade existing account by maintaining 25L amb
- upgrade from regular accounts on crossing 5L in credit card limit from the bank
-
no need to buy any other thing along with it, such as insurance or demat account.
- may negotiate for a LTF sapphiro

Here is a link to read about my whole journey of opening the account.

HDFC BANK
Preferred/Classic /Imperia
these are relationship status. Account type is usually savings max.

  • dedicated RM (you can get the branch manager to be RM for preferred/imperia)
  • Technically 0 AMB
  • family banking
  • Easy shop platinum debit card is free - gives 1% cashback on credit card bill payment
  • HELPS UPGRADE MONEYBACK+ to better cards
  • If opening a new account, you can get account number of your choice
- 2L/1L amb in existing account for 3 months, then request branch for upgrade
- IP cheque of 2L/1L (for new accounts) (IP is initial Pooling/payment that you make for opening new account)
- Imperia offered for 5L IP, or 10L balance maintenance
- they send a consent link, clicking which your account gets upgraded.
- once you have the upgrade, all the family accounts that are linked also get the same benefit.

I manually had to fight to get the upgrade. It's purely in the hands of the BM. Interview wagerah liya, and they do keep a track of how many emails/complaints you've raised with higher authority. More complaints = less likely the BM would want to upgrade your account (since you may complain about the BM)
I kept about 5L for a month and talked to BM and got the upgrade. Reduced funds to 2L later on.

IDFC first Bank
FUTURES FIRST ACCOUNT

  • 0 amb
  • Helps tremendously for getting credit cards pre approved. However you might get a lower variant than what you may get by c2c or ITR method.
  • Decent app and service.
  • Marginally better FD rates.
  • Visa signature debit card.

0amb account for "premire institutions graduates" i.e. people who have graduated or studying.
- can be opened offline only (No institute graduation checked LoL)😛
- 2% cashback on credit card payment after 20k Idfc is in a weird place wrt rewards.
- old accounts can't be converted to this variant. It's a completely different fish.

My process - I went to the nearest branch. They said they can't open the account. Gave various reasons why it can't be opened etc etc.
I threatened them that their cust care directed me to this branch. Suddenly I was ushered into the BM office. Did the same dance again (I think they just play on the fact that general junta is a bit afraid - because they don't read the docs about the product)
BM got me the account within the next 10 mins. No cheque. No ID check. I entered "salaried" in occupation.
Added some funds into the account myself and the debit card reached me in 2 days.
The debit card is generated only after you add.funds.
Keep some good funds in it to get credit card offers quicker.

SBM Bank
SBM Wealth
  • Visa signature
- 5L IP cheque
-

SBM bank opens with 5L, but needs you to maintain 30L NRV

IndusInd bank
Select savings account (legend)
Exclusive savings account (pinnacle)
  • (To be added)
- get Legend CC (can be attained ltf) then creat account or link with the credit card (needs 50k IP)
- Seasonal offers

As suggested by @tryabp : if you have spare funds of 5 lac then you can directly open Grande account >> Get Pinnace CC for Free >> Then Downgrade Account to Exclusive.

RBL Bank
Aspire/Signature/Insignia (insignia has an amb requirement)
  • High interest rates - 4.25% upto 1L, 5.5% over 1L
  • 0 amb
  • Lounge access (2/qtr)
  • Signature+ debit card - spend 5L in a year and get 2% cashback
  • Easy access to RBL credit cards
  • Home visit for banking provided in signature variant (eg getting cash delivered home)
  • Account number of your choice
Eligibility -
1. Aspire - 1L in SA or CA
2. Signature - 2L in SA or 5L in CA
3. Insignia - 10L in CA
I was offered Aspire for 2L IP and Signature for 5L IP


You can directly open account with the above amounts. Can apply for any debit card or credit card along with the account opening forms

With RBL it's about hitting the right people. An agent who is a signature RM will get you signature account for the same 2L IP. While Aspire RM will push you to get aspire.
Aspire can be gotten for 1L with good negotiation.
I got offered Signature for 2L, but opened aspire with 1L (since I was dealing with aspire rm)

Account opens in 2 days, and they usualy conduct house verification.

Kotak Bank
Privy league accounts

AMB - 50K (Neon Account)
AMB - 0 (Platinum account)

  • Essentially get 10% interest on the 50k deposit
  • Essentially a premium credit card, with 4 complimentary Priority Pass
- open a neon privy account
- buy privy signature credit card (2800 p.a.)
- spend 1k on the card every month religiously
- get ₹6400 per year
-benefits of the credit card
- premium banking account

SPECIAL MENTION
Regular bank accounts in PSBs
- get rupay select debit card (check here )
  • 1 month cult elite
  • 1 free spa session
  • 1 free medical test
  • Golf
  • OTT
Easiest account to open should be Bank of Baroda (needs your registered mobile and Aadhaar mobile to be the same)
In-branch experience was best for Indian Bank > BoB > central bank > union bank

If you guys have experience/ info about more accounts, please share. I would update the thread as and when i get those accounts.
 
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Planning to collect bank accounts as well?
Here are all the accounts you should look into.

0 MAB accounts will be added at the botton, because then it's not a collection, is it?

salary accounts not included yet - since they get 0 MAB pretty much everywhere except SC I guess🤔

Do let me know if it's possible to retain 0 MAB without getting salary in an account anymore.
-----------------------------------------------------------


ICICI BANK
Wealth Management account
  • free cibil score
  • cool black theme
  • welcome kit
  • 0 amb
  • visa signature/ mc world
  • family banking
  • dedicated RM
- 1-5L IP cheque/neft. 3L has been reported by many members -- I personally got for 1L
- upgrade existing account by maintaining 25L amb
- upgrade from regular accounts on crossing 5L in credit card limit from the bank

Here is a link to read about my whole journey

HDFC BANK
Preferred/Classic Account/Imperia

  • dedicated RM
  • 0 AMB
  • family banking
- 2L/1L amb in existing account for 3 months, then request branch for upgrade
- IP cheque of 2L/1L
- Imperia offered for 5L IP, or 10L balance maintenance

IDFC first Bank
FUTURES FIRST ACCOUNT

0amb account for "premire institutions graduates" i.e. people who have graduated as well.
- can be opened offline only (No institute graduation checked LoL)😛
- gets signature debit card
- 2% cashback on credit card payment after 20k

My process - I went to the nearest branch. They said they can't open the account. I threatened them that their cust care directed me to this branch. Suddenly I was ushered into the BM office. Did the same dance again (I think they just play on the fact that general junta is a bit afraid - because they don't read the docs about the product)
BM got me the account within the next 10 mins. No cheque. No ID check. I entered "salaried" in occupation.
Added some funds into the account myself and the debit card reached me in 2 days.
Apparently you need to fund it to get the debit card

SBM Bank
SBM Wealth
  • Visa signature
- 5L IP cheque
-

SBM bank opens with 5L, but needs you to maintain 30L NRV

IndusInd bank
Select savings account (legend)
Exclusive savings account (pinnacle)
  • (To be added)
- get Legend CC (can be attained ltf) then creat account or link with the credit card (needs 50k IP)
- Seasonal offers

As suggested by @tryabp : if you have spare funds of 5 lac then you can directly open Grande account >> Get Pinnace CC for Free >> Then Downgrade Account to Exclusive.

RBL Bank
Aspire/Signature/Insignia
  • High interest rates - 4.25% upto 1L, 5.5% over 1L
  • 0 amb
  • Lounge access (2/qtr)
Eligibility -
1. Aspire - 1L in SA or CA
2. Signature - 2L in SA or 5L in CA
3. Insignia - 10L in CA
I was offered Aspire for 2L IP and Signature for 5L IP

With RBL it's about hitting the right people. An agent who is a signature RM will get you signature account for the same 2L IP. While Aspire RM will get you aspire.
Aspire can be gotten for 1L with good negotiation.
I got Signature for 2L

Kotak Bank
Privy league accounts

AMB - 50K (Neon Account)
AMB - 0 (Platinum account)

  • Essentially get 10% interest on the 50k deposit
  • Essentially a premium credit card, with 4 complimentary Priority Pass
- open a neon privy account
- buy privy signature credit card (2800 p.a.)
- spend 1k on the card every month religiously
- get ₹6400 per year
-benefits of the credit card
- premium banking account

SPECIAL MENTION
Regular bank accounts in PSBs
- get rupay select debit card (check here )
  • 1 month cult elite
  • 1 free spa session
  • 1 free medical test
  • Golf
  • OTT
Easiest account to open should be Bank of Baroda (needs your registered mobile and Aadhaar mobile to be the same)
In-branch experience was best for Indian Bank > BoB > central bank > union bank

If you guys have experience/ info about more accounts, please share. I would update the thread as and when i get those accounts.
If anyone has idfc private banking pgm pl eloborate abt that
 
Upar wala comment padhleta toh smartness samaj mai bhi aata and as far as your hypocrisy goes , your last para doesn’t match with what you said above yesterday … ain’t listening things from peeps like ya..
Atleast I am not someone who can't maintain HNI account by keeping fund & attacking others personally to give smartness certificates.

You started giving certificates,just showed you the mirror, I guess you didn't liked what you saw. Anyway this topic is done for me. You can continue distributing certificates if there is any taker.
 
Discussion here is only for premium account with 0mab or least....
If author has not mentioned other accounts it's most likely not with least MAB, use some other thread.

Aur ye uper kya bhasad macha rakha hai... Ameer garib... Dil se ameer raho dimag se tez kaafi hai
Nothing wrong I ve asked it's depends upon indl thinking that hw he tk it, actually private banking is jst like wealth account which is actually a zero AMB acct thats why posted here
 
Really Sorry bhai , koi personal attack Ka irada nhi tha … but just a taste of your own medicine , nothing personal… just that the world is not fair , some have wealth some have none and we all should be happy from other’s happiness eh
How is it a taste of my own medicine? I never attacked you or anyone else. One person wrote that banks should downgrade people not maintaining AMB and I agreed with him. I never said anything about you or anyone else and didn't say anything derogatory about people not maintaining AMB. Anyway, let's forget this argument.
 
After going through the bizzare discussion going on this thread, I want to add my few cents -

1. It is wrong to think that someone not able to fulfil commitment for a ICICI Wealth account won't be able to if he chooses to. One can hold multiple HNI Accounts with various banks. Each account offering has some pros and cons. By holding multiple accounts one can optimise the benefits. We are on a forum where we try to exploit loopholes. If one cannot appreciate that, then unfortunately it seems to be the wrong place to be in.

2. Banks are run by very smart and knowledgeable people who chose to let people open accounts without fulfilling their criteria for TRV. This is a part of their customer acquisition strategy. When their targets are acheived then they prune the accounts slightly which won't affect most. They just want you to transfer some of your net worth from your other bank to their bank.

3. It is also their strategy to upsale. In case, one goes to a bank to open an account with 25k MAB, the branch officials will most likely push to open a wealth account to fulfil their targets. Aad such one always looks upwards while climbing up a ladder. A person capable of maintaing 25k mab will open an account with 2 lac commitment and likewise a person capable of maintaing a few crores give or take, will also try to open an UHNI account with 10 - 20 crore commitment. That's how it works and banks are well aware of that. If some feel that banks should penalise those not fulfilling their TRV commitments then they completely fail to see the big picture.
 
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