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Indian Banks: The Story of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC)

Oriental Bank of Commerce History

The bank was founded in 1943 at Lahore by Late Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal.  In 1945, the Bank was acquired by the “Thapar Group”,
a business group in the country at that time. In 1947, the Bank’s Head Office/Registered Office was shifted from Lahore to Amritsar and subsequently to New Delhi in 1951. The bank was nationalized in 1980. In 2004, Global Trust Bank was merged with Oriental Bank Of Commerce.

[We are trying to get the founder’s photograph; if you have, please share]

Oriental Bank of Commerce logo
Oriental Bank of Commerce logo
Oriental Bank of Commerce Lahore 1943
Oriental Bank of Commerce Lahore 1943

Did you know: The in-house magazine of OBC is called Aadhar

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