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Syndicate Bank was one of the oldest major commercial banks in India. It was founded by Upendra Ananth Pai , T. M. A. Pai and Vaman Srinivas Kudva . At the time of its establishment, the bank was known as Canara Industrial and Banking Syndicate Limited .
Vaman Srinivas Kudva (Kannada: ವಾಮನ್ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ್ ಕುಡ್ವ; 9 June 1899 – 30 June 1967), popularly called V. S. Kudva, was a founding director of Syndicate Bank, one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India. [1] [2]
In the fiscal year 2005-06, Canara Bank became India's second-largest public sector bank in terms of advances and deposits. The bank changed its name to Canara Bank Limited in 1910 when it incorporated. [5] In 2002-03, the bank went in for its Initial Public Offer and raised Rs.110 crores. [2] The India government holds a 73% stake in Canara Bank.
In 1996, Canara Bank became the first Indian Bank to get ISO certification for "Total Branch Banking" for its Seshadripuram branch in Bangalore. Canara Bank has now stopped opting for ISO certification of branches. On 30 August 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that Syndicate Bank would be merged with Canara Bank.
Pigmy Deposit Scheme is a monetary deposit scheme introduced by Syndicate Bank, India in 1928. [1]Initially, money as small as two anaas (an anna is a monetary unit of India, equal to one sixteenth of a rupee) can be deposited into an account on a daily basis in the pigmy deposit scheme in 1928.
Rank Name of the Bank Year of Founding Year of Closing Fate Headquartered in References [1]; 1: The Madras Bank (1683) 1683: 1843: Merged with the Carnatic Bank, The British Bank of Madras (1795), and the Asiatic Bank to form the Bank of Madras in 1843
The Government of India enacted the Regional Rural Banks Act in 1976, which led to the establishment of the first five RRBs on 2 October 1975. The first RRB was Prathama Bank, which was sponsored by Syndicate Bank and had its headquarters in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
He worked at Syndicate Bank, which had been established by one of his relatives and in 1970 the Government of India appointed him as the chairman of Life Insurance Corporation after Syndicate Bank got nationalized. [3] He was the first chairman of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. [4]