Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) History

BMB is the latest among the Govt.-owned banks. It is the first of its kind in the Banking Industry in India formed with a vision of economic empowerment for women. The New Delhi-based bank was incorporated in 2013.

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IDBI Bank History

Other than the nationalized banks, there are two more banks which are Govt. owned — IDBI Bank and Bhartiya Mahila Bank.

Industrial Development bank of India (IDBI) was constituted under Industrial Development bank of India Act, 1964 as a Development Financial Institution and came into being as on July 01, 1964. A new company under the name of Industrial Development Bank of India Limited (IDBI Ltd.) was incorporated as a Govt. Company on September 27, 2004. Towards achieving the faster inorganic growth of the Bank, IDBI Bank Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of IDBI Ltd. was amalgamated with IDBI Ltd. in 2005. In 2008, the name of the merged entity was changed from IDBI to IDBI Bank.

The State Bank of India (SBI) History

State Bank of India old logo

State Bank of India cheque

The State Bank of India was formed by the nationalization of the Imperial Bank of India in July 1955. This was the culmination of a IBI’s role in independent India — the debate on its bias towards European businesses and against indigenous entrepreneurs, and the slow pace of Indianization of its staff and management. The Rural Credit Survey Committee saw the proposed State Bank of India as a key part of its integrated system of rural credit. Consequently, the plan to nationalize the Imperial Bank became part of a wider effort to direct the funds of the banking system into certain neglected, but important, sectors of the economy such as agriculture, and spread banking facilities in rural areas.

Imperial Bank of India Emblem

Imperial Bank of India Cheque

The Imperial Bank was formed as a joint-stock bank in January 1921 by amalgamating the Presidency Banks of Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. This amalgamation was a response both to the felt need for a bank which would hold government balances and use them to deepen the country’s financial structure, and to the threat which the Presidency Banks felt was likely to emanate from the inroads the London clearing banks were planning to make in India. Almost from its inception, the Imperial Bank had the status of a quasi-central bank, undertaking until the formation of the Reserve Bank of India in 1935, banking functions for the Government of India and other banking institutions and managing the rupee debt of the government.

SBI 200 Years Stamp

Bank of Calcutta History:

The collapse of the Mughal empire, the uncertainity and political turmoil that followed, and the advent of the colonial power structure shook the existing ‘banking’ system in Indian. Indigenous bankers were eclipsed as Agency Houses took control of large finances. These agency houses enjoyed state patronage and some even established banks.

Bank of Bengal Building

Among the early issuers, the General Bank of Bengal and Bahar (1773-75) was a state sponsored institution set up in participation with local expertise. Its notes enjoyed government patronage. Though successful and profitable, the bank was officially wound up and was short lived. The Bank of Hindostan (1770-1832) was set up by the agency house of Alexander and Company was particularly successful. It survived three panic runs on it. The Bank of Hindostan finally went under when its parent firm M/s Alexander and Co. failed in the commercial crisis of 1832. Official patronage and the acceptance of notes in the payment of revenue was a very important factor in determining the circulation of bank notes. Wide use of bank notes, however, came with the note issues of the semi-government Presidency Banks, notably the Bank of Bengal which was established in 1806 as the Bank of Calcutta with a capital of 50 lakh sicca rupees. These banks were established by Government Charters and had an intimate relationship with the Government. The charter granted to these banks accorded them the privilege of issuing notes for circulation within their circles.

Notes issued by the Bank of Bengal can broadly be categorised in 3 broad series viz: the ‘Unifaced’ Series, the ‘Commerce’ Series and the ‘Britannia’ Series. First came the unifaced notes.

Bank of Bengal Unifaced Currency

The Bank of Bengal notes later introduced a vignette represented an allegorical female figure personifying ‘Commerce’ sitting by the quay. The notes were printed on both sides. On the obverse the name of the bank and the denominations were printed in three scripts, viz., Urdu, Bengali and Nagri.

Bank of Bengal Britannia Series Currency

Bank of Bengal Commerce Series Currency

On the reverse of such notes was printed a cartouche with ornamentation carrying the name of the Bank. Around the mid nineteenth century, the motif ‘Commerce’ was replaced by ‘Britannia’. The note had intricate patterns and multiple colours to deter forgeries.

Bank of Bombay History:

The second Presidency Bank was established in 1840 in Bombay, which had developed as major commercial centre. The Bank had a checkered history. The crisis resulting from the end of the speculative cotton boom led to the liquidation of Bank of Bombay in 1868. It was however reconstituted in the same year. Notes issued by the Bank of Bombay carried the vignettes of the Town Hall and others the statues of Mountstuart Elphinstone and John Malcolm.

Bank of Bombay currency

Bank of Bombay Building

The Bank of Madras’s history is officially traced to its formation in 1843 by the merger of Carnatic Bank (Fort St. George, 1788), the Madras Bank (1795) and the Asiatic Bank (1804). Banking in Madras can be traced to 1682 1 when Governor Gyfford and his council who established the Madras Bank — the first bank in India 2. 3 The notes of the Bank of Madras bore the vignette of Sir Thomas Munroe, Governor of Madras (1817-1827).

Bank of Madras currency

The Bank of Madras building

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The keyhole in the State Bank Group logo symbolises financial security but strangely it looks exactly like the Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad.

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State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ) History

The genesis of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur dates back to the year 1943-44, when the Bank of Jaipur Ltd. and the Bank of Bikaner Ltd. came into existence. In 1960, both banks were incorporated as subsidiaries of State Bank of India and named as State Bank of Bikaner and State Bank of Jaipur. On January 1, 1963, both banks were merged into one entity viz. State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur.

Bank of Bikaner Ltd:

Bank of Bikaner was founded Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner in 1944. 1

Maharaja Ganga Singh, Bank of Bikaner

Bank of Bikaner Cheque

Bank of Jaipur Ltd:

Bank of Jaipur was founded in 1943 under the leadership of industrialist Ramnath Anandilal Podar. 1 2 He was invited by the then Government of Jaipur to organise `The Bank of Jaipur’ and was its chairman. He continued in that capacity till he was appointed by the Government of India as director of the `Central Board of the State Bank of India’. He was also the president of the Bombay Local Board of State Bank of India.

Ramnath Anandilal Podar, Bank of Jaipur

State Bank of Hyderabad History

State Bank of Hyderabad was constituted as Hyderabad State Bank on 8.8.1941 under Hyderabad State Bank Act, 1941 by the last Nizam, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII. The Bank started with the unique distinction of being the central bank of the erstwhile State of Hyderabad, covering present-day Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad-Karnataka of Karnataka and Marathwada of Maharashtra, to manage its currency – Osmania Sikka and public debt apart from the functions of commercial banking. The first branch of the Bank was opened at Gunfoundry, Hyderabad on 5th April, 1942.

Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, founder of State Bank of Hyderabad

In 1953, the Bank took over the assets and liabilities of the Hyderabad Mercantile Bank Ltd. In the same year, the Bank started conducting Government and Treasury business as agent of Reserve Bank of India. In 1956, the Bank was taken over by Reserve Bank of India as its first subsidiary and its name was changed from Hyderabad State Bank to State Bank of Hyderabad. The Bank became a subsidiary of the State Bank of India on the 1st October 1959 and is now the largest Associate Bank of State Bank of India.

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In 1913, at the instance of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, the Engineer Statesman, a state aided Bank, under the patronage of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore, Sri Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, was established.This was “Mysore Bank Ltd”. During 1953, “Mysore Bank” was appointed as an agent of Reserve Bank of India to undertake Government business and treasury operations, and in March 1960, it became a subsidiary of the State Bank of India under the State Bank of India (subsidiary Banks) Act 1959.  Now our bank is an Associate Bank under State Bank Group.

Mysore Bank Head Office 1913

Sir MV, founder, State Bank of Mysore

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The State Bank of Patiala was founded as the Patiala State Bank in 1917 by  Late His Highness Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of erstwhile Patiala state, with one branch at Chowk Fort, Patiala. The bank was setup fostering growth of agriculture, trade and industry.

State Bank of Patiala Logo

His Highness Bhupinder Singh, co-founder, State Bank of Patiala

The bank became Bank of Patiala in 1948, and its name was changed to State Bank of Patiala when it became an associate of the State Bank of India on 1st January 1960.

Sometime ago, SBP had tried to use a mascot 2 and a tagline — Blending Modernity With Tradition 1

SBP old mascot