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The Imperial Bank of India (IBI) was one of the oldest and the largest commercial banks in India, and was subsequently renamed and nationalised as the State Bank of India in 1955. Initially, as per its royal charter , it acted as the central bank for India prior to the formation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1935.
Stamp dedicated to the State Bank of India in 2005 Share of the Bank of Bengal, issued 13 May 1876 Seal of Imperial Bank of India. The roots of the State Bank of India lie in the first decade of the 19th century when the Bank of Calcutta (later renamed the Bank of Bengal) was established on 2 June 1806.
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 three banks were merged in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India, which upon India's independence, became the State Bank of India in 1955. For many years, the presidency banks had acted as quasi-central banks, as did their successors, until the Reserve Bank of India [5] was established in 1935, under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 ...
The oldest bank in India is The Madras Bank (1683), followed by the Bank of Bombay, founded in 1720, which is then followed by the Bank of Hindustan, founded in 1770. Imperial Bank of India was succeeded by State Bank of India in 1955 and State Bank of Pakistan in 1948 respectively whose origins can be traced back to the Bank of Calcutta. It ...
The State Bank of India or SBI is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services statutory body, headquartered in Mumbai. SBI is ranked as 216th in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations of 2018.
The Bank of Bombay was the second of the three presidency banks (others being the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Madras) of the Raj period. It was established, pursuant to a charter of the British East India Company , on 15 April 1840.
Imperial Bank may refer to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, one of the "Big Five" banks in Canada, once the Imperial Bank of Canada; Imperial Bank of China, first Chinese-owned bank modelled on Western banking practice; Imperial Bank of India, oldest and the largest commercial bank of the Indian subcontinent, now State Bank of India