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A 2018 stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Union Bank of India. Union Bank of India was established on 11 November 1919 in Bombay (now Mumbai) by Seth Sitaram Poddar. [1] The bank's corporate office was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. At the time of India's independence in 1947, the bank had four branches – three in Mumbai and one ...
Branches Sponsor bank Refs Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank: 2006: Warangal, Telangana: 755: State Bank of India: Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank: 2006: Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh: 552: Canara Bank: Chaitanya Godavari Gramin Bank [51] 2006: Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: 219: Union Bank of India: Saptagiri Gramin Bank [52] 2006: Chittoor ...
In business volume, the Bank occupies a premier position among the nationalised banks. The bank has over 5,084 branches in India spread over all states and union territories including specialized branches. These branches are controlled through 54 zonal offices. There are 60 branches, 5 subsidiaries, and 1 joint venture abroad.
A 60% stake was taken by the Reserve Bank of India and the new bank was named State Bank of India. The seven other state banks became subsidiaries of the new bank in 1959 when the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 was passed by the Union government. [1]
Presently, the bank has a network of 2,432 fully automated CBS branches, 3,040 ATMs, and 4,724 branchless banking units across the country. [3] In 2019, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that Corporation Bank and Andhra Bank would be merged into the Union Bank of India, with all their branches becoming branches of the latter on 1 ...
In the 1980s, the managers of the London branches of Central Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, and Union Bank of India were caught up in a fraud in which they made dubious loans to the Bangladeshi jute trader Rajender Singh Sethia. [14] The regulatory authorities in England and India forced all three Indian banks to close their London branches.
UCO Bank, formerly United Commercial Bank, is an Indian public sector bank, and financial services government owned body headquartered in Kolkata. [3] It is a medium sized public sector bank in India and ranked 1948 in Forbes Global 2000 list of year 2018 & ranked 80 on the Fortune India 500 list in 2020. [4]
The Reserve Bank of India assisted the banks in amalgamating to form United Bank of India. In 1961, UBI merged with Cuttack Bank (est. 6 June 1913) and Tezpur Industrial Bank (est. 6 June 1918, as the first commercial bank in Assam province). Four years later, in 1965, the government of Pakistan took over the bank's branches in Pakistan.