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ICICI Bank adds travel card digital reload feature

ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank by consolidated assets, has enabled its customers to reload foreign currency to the ICICI Bank Travel Card instantly using the bank's internet banking platform and mobile banking app, iMobile.

The bank has also enabled an array of other services on its mobile app and internet banking platform, according to a press release. These services enable the customers to block/unblock travel card, view mini statements, update an email address and mobile number. The bank also enabled customers to refund the funds loaded on their travel card to the linked savings account using ICICI's internet banking platform.

"Over the last few years, we have seen an exponential growth in the number of Indians travelling abroad," Anup Bagchi, executive director of ICICI Bank, said in the release. "Keeping this in mind, we have added a host of new features and benefits to the bank’s travel card. These aim at providing customers with a convenient and secure way of carrying foreign currency while travelling abroad."