National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

The Reserve Bank of India is the country’s central bank, set up in 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India Act and nationalised in 1949.

IDBI Bank is the former Industrial Development Bank of India, the development finance institution set up in 1964 that became a commercial bank in 2004; it is now majority-owned by the Life Insurance Corporation and the G

Exim Bank is the Government’s export credit agency, set up by Act of Parliament in 1982 to finance, facilitate and promote India’s foreign trade.

SIDBI is the apex financial institution for micro, small and medium enterprises, set up in 1990; its head office is in Lucknow and its Mumbai office is in Bandra Kurla Complex, from where much of its refinance and fund-o

State Bank of India is the largest bank in the country, descended from the Bank of Calcutta of 1806 through the Imperial Bank of India, and constituted in its present form in 1955.

Bank of Baroda was founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda and nationalised in 1969; it absorbed Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank in 2019 to become the second-largest public sector bank.

Bank of India was founded in Mumbai in 1906 by a group of the city’s merchants and nationalised in 1969; its head office is Star House in Bandra Kurla Complex, and its old Mumbai main branch is at Mahatma Gandhi Road in

Union Bank of India was registered in Mumbai in 1919, its head office inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi, and nationalised in 1969; in 2020 it absorbed Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank.