ICICI Bank has announced the launch of the second season of ‘ICICI Appathon’, its virtual mobile app development challenge. The mobile app development initiative in the FinTech and InsurTech space will offer access to over 250 diverse APIs (application programme interface) from ICICI Bank and its group companies — ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and ICICI Securities — VISA, National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) and cloud platform from IBM, the private sector bank said in a statement. The bank said the programme seeks to create the next generation of banking applications on mobile and web space by attracting developers, technology companies, start-ups, technopreneurs and students across the globe.