The State Bank of India on Wednesday launched its WhatsApp Banking services in a move to make the banking easier for its customers. 

• Dinesh Khara, the chairman of SBI, announced this while announcing a few retail initiatives.
• In addition, Khara stated that they would soon introduce API (application programming interface) banking to corporate clients and aggregators.
• API Banking is a system where APIs, a way for two or more computer programmes to communicate with each other, are used for communication between bank and client servers.