Indian Bank

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Indian Bank

Type	Government Held Public Sector Corportion
Founded	1907
Headquarters	Chennai, India
Key people	Dr. Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty (Chairman and MD) Mr. M.S. Sundara Rajan (Executive Director)
Industry	Banking
Revenue	3895.99 Crores ~ $865m (2005-06)
Employees	22,000
Parent	Reserve Bank of India
Website	www.indianbank.in

Indian Bank, established in 1907, is a major Indian commercial bank headquartered in Chennai (Madras), India. It has 22000 employees and 1400 branches and is one of the big public sector banks of India. It has overseas branches in Colombo (Sri Lanka), and Singapore, and 229 correspondent banks in 69 countries. The Government of India nationalized the bank, along with 13 other major commercial banks, on 19th July, 1969.

1 History
2 See also
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links

[edit] History

1907: Established on 15th August as part of the Swadeshi movement (Freedom Movement in India) ^[1]. Though not a Chettiar bank, some of the founders were Chettiars.
1932: Indian Bank opened a branch in Colombo.
1935: IB opened a branch in Jaffna.
1939: IB closed the Jaffna branch.
1940: IB opened a branch in Rangoon (Yangon).
1941: IB closed the Rangoon branch but opened branches in Singapore(where future branch manager KB Pisharody(1915-1998) started his career in the same year), and in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang. The rapid advance of the Japanese Army forced IB to close all its branches in Malaya and Singapore.
1942: IB closed the Colombo branch.
194?: IB reopened its Malayan and Singapore branches.
1948: IB reopened its branch in Colombo.
1960s: IB acquired Mannargudi Bank (est. 1932) and Salem Bank (est. 1925).
1969: The Government of India nationalized 14 top banks, including Indian Bank.
1973: Indian Overseas Bank, Indian Bank and United Commercial Bank established United Asian Bank Berhad in which IOB held 16.67% of the paid up capital, as a result of a new banking law in Malaysia that prohibited foreign government banks from operating in the country.
1978: IB became a technical adviser to P T Bank Rama in Indonesia, the result of the merger of P T Bank Masyarakat and P T Bank Ramayana.
1980: Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India and Indian Bank established IUB International Finance, a licensed deposit taker in Hong Kong. Each of the three banks took an equal share in the joint venture.
Early 1980s: IB acquired Bank of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu in a rescue.
1987: IB acquired Bank of Tanjore in a rescue.
1998: Bank of Baroda bought out its partners in IUB Intl. Fin. in Hong Kong. Apparently this was a response to regulatory changes following Hong Kong’s reversion. IUB became Bank of Baroda (Hong Kong), a restricted license bank.