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The Indian Financial System Code (IFS Code or IFSC) is an alphanumeric code that facilitates electronic funds transfer in India. A code uniquely identifies each bank branch participating in the three main Payment and settlement systems in India: the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT), Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) systems.
A bill of exchange processed by the Bank of Bengal, 1886.. The bank opened branches at Rangoon (1861), Patna (1862), Mirzapur (1862), and Benares (1862). When it became known that the bank intended to open a branch at Dacca, negotiations began that resulted in Bank of Bengal in 1862 amalgamating The Dacca Bank (1846). [1]
This is a list of banks which are considered to be Scheduled Banks under the second schedule of RBI Act, 1934. [1] [2]At end-March 2024, India's commercial banking sector consisted of 12 public sector banks (PSBs), 21 private sector banks (PVBs), 45 foreign banks (FBs), 12 SFBs, 6 PBs, 43 RRBs, and 2 LABs.
In December 2015 the first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in India was set up in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City). [5] In 2019 the Government of India enacted an Act of Parliament called the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019. [6] [7] [5]
A bank branch can be identified from the bank code. Denmark has 4-digit bank code (called Registreringsnummer, or Reg. nr.). France has a 10 digit code, the first 5 digits contain the clearing identifier of the banking company (Code Banque), followed by the 5-digit branch code (Code Guichet). Both numbers are only used as a combined prefix for ...
In 1830, bourse activities in Kolkata were conducted under a neem tree. [5] The earliest record of dealings in securities in India records trading of the British East India Company ’s loan stock. The exchange was founded on 1 December 1863 by sixteen leading stockbrokers, beginning life in rented premises on 11 Strand Road.
Citibank began operations in 1902 in Calcutta ().[1] [2]In the late 1980s and 1990s, the division was one of the first banks to offer credit cards in India. [3]In 1992, Citibank India was alleged to have played the leading role in allowing or facilitating the market manipulation that drove up prices of shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange during the 1992 Indian stock market scam.
The bank moved its headquarters from Bombay to London in 1845, and opened branches in Colombo (1843), Calcutta (1844), Shanghai (1845), Canton (1845), Singapore (1846), and Hong Kong (1846). [4] The bank acquired the failing Bank of Ceylon in 1850, and obtained a royal charter for the merged institution under the name Oriental Bank Corporation ...