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Help - Privy League Member applying for a Kotak White Reserve LTF Credit Card?

callmexd

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Hi All,

This is my first post ever. I've been an avid consumer of technofino community content for the past few months and I've finally created an account :) I've got a small challenge that the veterans here may be able to assist with.

I've been a member with Kotak for about 9 years (started since the INGVysya days). I have both a savings and securites account with Kotak (they are linked obv). I dont generally keep more than 50K in my savings account at any given time and my portfolio with Kotak Securities is about 15L+. Since I have a 10L+ NRV with the bank, I was recently upgraded to the Privy League Prima platform (Now called Neon).

Last year, I received a call from someone in the upper management of Kotak. It seems through the process of Family accounting, I would have been eligible for Kotak Wealth/Private Banking. But since my family didnt want to link our accounts together, we declined the offer.

I've been really interested in the Kotak White Reserve credit card because im pretty curious about the White pass membership. Also, the VISA Infinite platform helps :) - I would get access to a capable conceirge service.

I reached out to the bank manager of the my local branch. He's a good chap who replies to queries quickly. However, when I inquired about this White Reserve card as LTF, he politely informed me that he's only authorized to issue cards upto White and only if the same offer is visible on the website. When he checked the website offer on my behalf, the best I was getting was a Zen card.

I did follow the other user in TF community's guidance and sent a query with all my information to the Kotak Nodal officer. Their reply was the follows: "As per our checks white reserve credit card is only on offer basis due to which we are unable to assist for new application. Request you to kindly visit your branch or liaise up with your relationship manager to check for the same."
I did follow up with their mail that the RM is not aware on how to issue/ approve a White Reserve LTF card request. I did this twice since the assigned officer just copy pasted the same reply. Then I got this message: "We have forwarded your feedback to the respective branch. Post further update from the team we shall revert you."

So far, its been about a week and no reply. I did reason in the inital mail that I got the the Wealth/ Private Banking offer from the respective team (gave his email details aswell) as my immediate family are HNI customers but to no further avail.

Am I being too optimistic? I do already have a HDFC Diners Club Black (LTF) and an ICICI Amazon Pay with 5L credit each (mentioned this in the mail aswell incase of C2C). I just wanted to utilize my growing relationship with Kotak to the fullest by getting this card but the way I see it, its not going anywhere. Level3 of the Nodal officer team is the last resort.
Would appreciate some guidance.
 
Hi All,

This is my first post ever. I've been an avid consumer of technofino community content for the past few months and I've finally created an account :) I've got a small challenge that the veterans here may be able to assist with.

I've been a member with Kotak for about 9 years (started since the INGVysya days). I have both a savings and securites account with Kotak (they are linked obv). I dont generally keep more than 50K in my savings account at any given time and my portfolio with Kotak Securities is about 15L+. Since I have a 10L+ NRV with the bank, I was recently upgraded to the Privy League Prima platform (Now called Neon).

Last year, I received a call from someone in the upper management of Kotak. It seems through the process of Family accounting, I would have been eligible for Kotak Wealth/Private Banking. But since my family didnt want to link our accounts together, we declined the offer.

I've been really interested in the Kotak White Reserve credit card because im pretty curious about the White pass membership. Also, the VISA Infinite platform helps :) - I would get access to a capable conceirge service.

I reached out to the bank manager of the my local branch. He's a good chap who replies to queries quickly. However, when I inquired about this White Reserve card as LTF, he politely informed me that he's only authorized to issue cards upto White and only if the same offer is visible on the website. When he checked the website offer on my behalf, the best I was getting was a Zen card.

I did follow the other user in TF community's guidance and sent a query with all my information to the Kotak Nodal officer. Their reply was the follows: "As per our checks white reserve credit card is only on offer basis due to which we are unable to assist for new application. Request you to kindly visit your branch or liaise up with your relationship manager to check for the same."
I did follow up with their mail that the RM is not aware on how to issue/ approve a White Reserve LTF card request. I did this twice since the assigned officer just copy pasted the same reply. Then I got this message: "We have forwarded your feedback to the respective branch. Post further update from the team we shall revert you."

So far, its been about a week and no reply. I did reason in the inital mail that I got the the Wealth/ Private Banking offer from the respective team (gave his email details aswell) as my immediate family are HNI customers but to no further avail.

Am I being too optimistic? I do already have a HDFC Diners Club Black (LTF) and an ICICI Amazon Pay with 5L credit each (mentioned this in the mail aswell incase of C2C). I just wanted to utilize my growing relationship with Kotak to the fullest by getting this card but the way I see it, its not going anywhere. Level3 of the Nodal officer team is the last resort.
Would appreciate some guidan
Hi All,

This is my first post ever. I've been an avid consumer of technofino community content for the past few months and I've finally created an account :) I've got a small challenge that the veterans here may be able to assist with.

I've been a member with Kotak for about 9 years (started since the INGVysya days). I have both a savings and securites account with Kotak (they are linked obv). I dont generally keep more than 50K in my savings account at any given time and my portfolio with Kotak Securities is about 15L+. Since I have a 10L+ NRV with the bank, I was recently upgraded to the Privy League Prima platform (Now called Neon).

Last year, I received a call from someone in the upper management of Kotak. It seems through the process of Family accounting, I would have been eligible for Kotak Wealth/Private Banking. But since my family didnt want to link our accounts together, we declined the offer.

I've been really interested in the Kotak White Reserve credit card because im pretty curious about the White pass membership. Also, the VISA Infinite platform helps :) - I would get access to a capable conceirge service.

I reached out to the bank manager of the my local branch. He's a good chap who replies to queries quickly. However, when I inquired about this White Reserve card as LTF, he politely informed me that he's only authorized to issue cards upto White and only if the same offer is visible on the website. When he checked the website offer on my behalf, the best I was getting was a Zen card.

I did follow the other user in TF community's guidance and sent a query with all my information to the Kotak Nodal officer. Their reply was the follows: "As per our checks white reserve credit card is only on offer basis due to which we are unable to assist for new application. Request you to kindly visit your branch or liaise up with your relationship manager to check for the same."
I did follow up with their mail that the RM is not aware on how to issue/ approve a White Reserve LTF card request. I did this twice since the assigned officer just copy pasted the same reply. Then I got this message: "We have forwarded your feedback to the respective branch. Post further update from the team we shall revert you."

So far, its been about a week and no reply. I did reason in the inital mail that I got the the Wealth/ Private Banking offer from the respective team (gave his email details aswell) as my immediate family are HNI customers but to no further avail.

Am I being too optimistic? I do already have a HDFC Diners Club Black (LTF) and an ICICI Amazon Pay with 5L credit each (mentioned this in the mail aswell incase of C2C). I just wanted to utilize my growing relationship with Kotak to the fullest by getting this card but the way I see it, its not going anywhere. Level3 of the Nodal officer team is the last resort.
Would appreciate some guidance.

Post the query on twitter. You will get the fastest resolution from kotak.
 

anirban.choudhury

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Kotak white reserve has a floor limit of 10 lakhs , if you have any other card that has 10 lakh plus limit , you can first ask for a LE based on that or if you have higher ITR or salary slip then use that to get LE in your current kotak card

Otherwise kotak generally won’t offer you white reserve , for LTF you can use your privy league status or other negotiations .

Also to add , white pass is just pathetic , even after spending 1 cr you get about 2-2.5% return which is simply a waste . Only thing nice about white reserve is that it is now offered in metal ( good aesthetics ) and it offers unlimited lounge access through DF to add-on card members also.
 

plastikman

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Hi All,

This is my first post ever. I've been an avid consumer of technofino community content for the past few months and I've finally created an account :) I've got a small challenge that the veterans here may be able to assist with.

I've been a member with Kotak for about 9 years (started since the INGVysya days). I have both a savings and securites account with Kotak (they are linked obv). I dont generally keep more than 50K in my savings account at any given time and my portfolio with Kotak Securities is about 15L+. Since I have a 10L+ NRV with the bank, I was recently upgraded to the Privy League Prima platform (Now called Neon).

Last year, I received a call from someone in the upper management of Kotak. It seems through the process of Family accounting, I would have been eligible for Kotak Wealth/Private Banking. But since my family didnt want to link our accounts together, we declined the offer.

I've been really interested in the Kotak White Reserve credit card because im pretty curious about the White pass membership. Also, the VISA Infinite platform helps :) - I would get access to a capable conceirge service.

I reached out to the bank manager of the my local branch. He's a good chap who replies to queries quickly. However, when I inquired about this White Reserve card as LTF, he politely informed me that he's only authorized to issue cards upto White and only if the same offer is visible on the website. When he checked the website offer on my behalf, the best I was getting was a Zen card.

I did follow the other user in TF community's guidance and sent a query with all my information to the Kotak Nodal officer. Their reply was the follows: "As per our checks white reserve credit card is only on offer basis due to which we are unable to assist for new application. Request you to kindly visit your branch or liaise up with your relationship manager to check for the same."
I did follow up with their mail that the RM is not aware on how to issue/ approve a White Reserve LTF card request. I did this twice since the assigned officer just copy pasted the same reply. Then I got this message: "We have forwarded your feedback to the respective branch. Post further update from the team we shall revert you."

So far, its been about a week and no reply. I did reason in the inital mail that I got the the Wealth/ Private Banking offer from the respective team (gave his email details aswell) as my immediate family are HNI customers but to no further avail.

Am I being too optimistic? I do already have a HDFC Diners Club Black (LTF) and an ICICI Amazon Pay with 5L credit each (mentioned this in the mail aswell incase of C2C). I just wanted to utilize my growing relationship with Kotak to the fullest by getting this card but the way I see it, its not going anywhere. Level3 of the Nodal officer team is the last resort.
Would appreciate some guidance.
Hello fellow Kotakian. For Neon or erstwhile Prima, they would at the best provide Privy Signature/Zen on LTF basis. For White Reserve, my RM too had told me to atleast upgrade to Platinum (erstwhile Optima) and above. They are currently revamping and it would be worthwhile to wait for a few months to see if they are updating their credit card offerings, too !
 

It_is_Naruto

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Hi...reading this thread I feel I should forget about white reserve card( No relationship with Kotak as of now). Nevertheless I am trying for this. If there is any breakthrough, will update here :)
 

anirban.choudhury

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Calling @anirban.choudhury and @RajBlr

I believe you're the only 2 members on this forum who have successfully managed to acquire the White Reserve LTF via RM/Nodal officer route. Do you have any guidance? Any specific contact with Kotak that I can talk to?
I don’t have a RM for my account in kotak as it’s the most basic variant . I was able to get it just via negotiating with Nodal desk .
The way I negotiated I have already shared in a different post , but I think unless you have high spends on other cards and high spends on current kotak card then it would be non duplicable .
 

callmexd

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I don’t have a RM for my account in kotak as it’s the most basic variant . I was able to get it just via negotiating with Nodal desk .
The way I negotiated I have already shared in a different post , but I think unless you have high spends on other cards and high spends on current kotak card then it would be non duplicable .
Thanks for the valuable inputs. Ive got about 7 lakhs spends on my DCB and about 4 lakhs spends on my APay (12 month period). I think it should suffice. So far, as stated above, the nodal officer seems oblivious to my request to approve a White Reserve.

I will try the "Spends" strategy with the Level 3 nodal officer. Will keep this forum updated. As of now, still no update from the Level 2 officer.
 

anirban.choudhury

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Thanks for the valuable inputs. Ive got about 7 lakhs spends on my DCB and about 4 lakhs spends on my APay (12 month period). I think it should suffice. So far, as stated above, the nodal officer seems oblivious to my request to approve a White Reserve.

I will try the "Spends" strategy with the Level 3 nodal officer. Will keep this forum updated. As of now, still no update from the Level 2 officer.
Do you have a existing kotak card ? As it will be difficult to get white reserve as First card LTF
 

anirban.choudhury

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Thanks for the valuable inputs. Ive got about 7 lakhs spends on my DCB and about 4 lakhs spends on my APay (12 month period). I think it should suffice. So far, as stated above, the nodal officer seems oblivious to my request to approve a White Reserve.

I will try the "Spends" strategy with the Level 3 nodal officer. Will keep this forum updated. As of now, still no update from the Level 2 officer.
Also to add , the statements that I attached were for last 6 months of my top used card and combined it were above 30 lakhs , so I am not sure whether 7 and 4 lakhs would work.
I would suggest if you already hold a privy league status with kotak , rather than approaching them via spend or negotitation route , connect with your Privy banking RM and negotiate with him for white reserve that would be much easier for you .
 

anirban.choudhury

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