HDFC Bank Credit Card Ban Lifted
RBI lifts HDFC Bank's credit-card issuance ban after eight months, reopening access to Infinia and Diners Black cards.
HDFC Bank can issue new credit cards again. The RBI lifted its eight-month ban on August 17, 2021. This means new applicants can get the Infinia Metal and Diners Club Black Metal. Our take: overdue, and it mattered — eight months of frozen Infinia and Diners Black issuance ended overnight, and HDFC came back swinging with metal variants within weeks. If you’d been waiting for India’s strongest premium cards to reopen, this was the starting gun.