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ING Vysya Bank was a privately owned Indian multinational bank based in Bangalore, with retail, wholesale, and private banking platforms formed from the 2002 purchase of an equity stake in Vysya Bank by the Dutch ING Group. This merger marked the first between an Indian bank and a foreign bank. [4]
The major shares of the bank were taken over by ING Group in 2002 and the bank was renamed to ING Vysya Bank in 2003. [3] [4]In July 2003, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) took over the shareholding of ING in Vysya Bank Housing Finance Ltd and made it a subsidiary of DHFL and changed the name to DHFL Vysya Housing Finance Ltd (DVHFL).
In 1948 Vysya Bank became a scheduled bank. On 7 October 2002 ING Group took over the Management of the Bank. But again ING Vysya Bank has merged with Kotak Mahindra Bank with effect from 1 April 2015 and the combined entity bears the name Kotak Mahindra Bank. [9] Before merger ING Vysya Bank had about 470 branches spread all over India.
The bank launched as ING Direct in August 1999 and operated out of the offices of its sister company ING Australia at 347 Kent Street, Sydney and then North Sydney. [23]In March 2001 the bank signed a lease on several floors of the 14-storey office building at 140 Sussex Street, Sydney; subsequent growth led to the bank taking on additional floors over the next five years, culminating in ING ...
The ING Group (Dutch: ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam.Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services.
The same year, ING Vysya Bank, ING Insurance, and the Damani Group established a life insurance joint venture, marking the first bancassurance venture in India. In 2005, Exide Industries acquired a 50% stake in ING Vysya Life Insurance. The company distributed its products through various channels, including Agency, Bancassurance, Corporate ...
In 2014, Kotak Mahindra Bank acquired a 15% stake in Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) from Financial Technologies Group for ₹ 459 crore (US$75.21 million) to become the company's largest shareholder. [20] In 2014, Kotak Mahindra Bank announced the acquisition of ING Vysya Bank in a deal valued at ₹ 15,000 crore (US$2.34 billion).
[citation needed] Earlier he was president, ING Vysya Bank (2001–2004) [4] and managing director, GMR Industries Ltd (2007–2008), GMR Group. He has been an adjunct professor at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, [5] since 1990, and Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada.