TNPSC - General Studies for Commerce
Bank Exam Commerce General Studies TNPSC
TNPSC - General Studies for Commerce
- Banking Concept was brought in India by – European.
- First Bank in India was Bank of Hindusthan established in 1779.
- First Presidency Bank of India – Bank of Calcutta established in 1806 and immediately became Bank of Bengal
- First bank of India with limited liability to be managed by Indian board was Oudh Commercial Bank. It was established in 1881.
- First bank purely managed by Indian was Punjab National Bank. PNB was established in Lahore in 1895.
- First Indian Commercial Bank wholly managed and owned by Indian was – Central Bank of India, established in 1911.
- First Indian bank to open a branch outside India is – Bank of India
- First Indian bank to open a branch in Continental Europe at Paris is Bank of India
- First cooperative bank in Asia? – Anyonya Cooperative Bank.
- First Indian Bank to get ISO certification – Canara Bank
- First bank in India to introduce ATM – HSBC
- First Foreign Bank in India – HSBC
- First Universal Bank in India ICICI Bank.
- First Indian bank to Introduce internet banking – ICICI bank.
- First bank in India listed in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – ICICI Bank.
- First bank in India to facilitate payment of Income tax using ATM recently? –Union Bank of India
- First Bank in India to launch Talking ATMs for differentlyable person? – Union Bank of India.
- First Bank in India to launch it’s own Payment Aggregators – State Bank of India.(SBIePay).
- Country’s first all woman bank – Bhartiya Mahila Bank.
- Which of the following was the first public sector commercial bank which had launched a mutual fund? – State Bank of India
- Which of the following bank became the first in India to be fully computerized? – Bank of India
- India’s first truly Swadeshi bank was – Central bank of India
- In 1969 the Indian government nationalised 14 major private banks.
- In 1980, 6 more private banks were nationalised
Public-sector banks
There are currently 27 public sector banks in India out of which 19 are nationalised banks and 6 are SBI and its associate banks, and rest two are IDBI Bank and Bharatiya Mahila Bank, which are categorised as other public sector banks. There are total 93 commercial banks in India
State Bank and its associates
- State Bank of India
- State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur
- State Bank of Hyderabad
- State Bank of Mysore
- State Bank of Patiala
- State Bank of Travancore
List of Nationalised Banks
- Allahabad Bank
- Andhra Bank
- Bank of India
- Bank of Baroda
- Bank of Maharashtra
- Canara Bank
- Central Bank of India
- Corporation Bank
- Dena Bank
- Indian Bank
- Indian Overseas Bank
- Oriental Bank of Commerce
- Punjab & Sindh Bank
- Punjab National Bank
- Syndicate Bank
- UCO Bank
- Union Bank of India
- United Bank of India
- Vijaya Bank
Other Public Sector Banks
- IDBI Bank
- Bharatiya Mahila Bank
List of Private-Sector Banks
- Axis Bank
- Bandhan Bank[3]
- Catholic Syrian Bank
- City Union Bank
- Dhanlaxmi Bank
- DCB Bank
- Federal Bank
- HDFC Bank
- HSBC Bank
- ICICI Bank
- IDFC Bank
- Karnataka Bank
- IndusInd Bank
- Jammu and Kashmir Bank
- Karur Vysya Bank
- Kotak Mahindra Bank[4]
- Lakshmi Vilas Bank
- Nainital Bank
- RBL Bank
- South Indian Bank
- Yes bank
- Citi Bank
List of State Cooperative Banks (State Cooperative Banks (SCBs)
- Andaman and Nicobar State Co-operative Bank
- Andhra Pradesh State Co-operative Bank
- Arunachal Pradesh State Co-operative Apex Bank
- Assam Co-operative Apex Bank
- Bihar State Co-operative Bank
- Bharat Co-operative Bank
- Chandigarh State Co-operative Bank
- Chhattisgarh Rajya Sahakari Bank Maryadit
- Delhi State Co-operative Bank
- Goa State Co-operative Bank
- Gujarat State Co-operative Bank
- Gujarat State Co-operative Agriculture & Rural Development Bank
- Haryana State Co-opertive Apex Bank
- Himachal Pradesh State Co-operative Bank
- Jammu and Kashmir State Co-operative Bank
- Jharkhand State Co-operative Bank
- Karnataka State Co-operative Apex Bank
- Kerala State Co-operative Bank
- Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sahakari Bank Maryadit
- Mogaveera Co-operative Bank
- Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank
- Manipur State Co-operative Bank
- Meghalaya Co-operative Apex Bank
- Mizoram Co-operative Apex Bank
- Nagaland State Co-operative Bank
- Orissa State Co-operative Bank
- Pondichery State Co-operative Bank
- Punjab State Co-operative Bank
- Rajasthan State Co-operative Bank
- Sikkim State Co-operative Bank
- The Tamil Nadu State Apex Co-operative Bank
- Telangana State Co-Operative Apex Bank Limited
- Tripura State Co-operative Bank
- Uttar Pradesh Co-operative Bank
- Uttarakhand State Co-operative Bank
- West Bengal State Co-operative Bank
- Tumkur Grain Merchant's Co-operative Bank
- Nagpur Nagrik Sahakari Bank Limited
List of foreign banks in India as on December 31st, 2015
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Australia
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Australia
- National Australia Bank , Australia
- Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia
- Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait BSC, Bahrain
- AB Bank Ltd, Bangladesh
- Sonali Bank Ltd. Bangladesh
- KBC Bank NV Belgium
- Bank of Nova Scotia Canada 3
- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.China
- BNP Paribas France
- Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, France
- Societe Generale France
- Deutsche Bank Germany
- HSBC Ltd Hong Kong
- Bank Internasional Indonesia Indonesia
- Mizuho Bank Ltd. Japan 5
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Japan
- The Bank of Tokyo- Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Japan
- SBM Bank(Mauritius) Ltd Mauritius
- Rabobank International Netherlands
- The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V., Netherlands
- Doha Bank Qatar
- JSC VTB Bank Russia
- Sberbank Russia
- DBS Bank Ltd. Singapore
- United Overseas Bank Ltd Singapore
- FirstRand Bank Ltd South Africa
- Shinhan Bank South Korea
- Woori Bank South Korea
- Korea Exchange Bank South Korea
- Industrial Bank of Korea South Korea
- Bank of Ceylon Sri Lanka
- Credit Suisse A.G Switzerland
- UBS AG Switzerland
- CTBC Bank Co., Ltd. Taiwan
- Krung Thai Bank Public Co. Ltd. Thailand
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Ltd.UAE
- Mashreq Bank PSC UAE
- National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC, UAE
- Barclays Bank Plc. United Kingdom
- Standard Chartered Bank United Kingdom
- American Express Banking Corporation, USA
- Bank of America USA
- Citibank N.A. USA
- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A. USA
