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It was established by the agency house of Alexander and Company. [2] [3] [4] The Bank lived through three economic crises of the 19th century: [5] The Recession of 1819; The failure of Palmer and Co., a British agency house; The Banking Crisis of 1832
Alexander and Company, Limited, often simply called Alexander and Co., was an Agency House in British India founded by traders and merchants from Scotland. Alexander and Co. has made several pioneering contributions to the economy of India. Alexander and Co. was the promoter and founder of India's very first bank, the Bank of Hindostan. [1]
The Oriental Life Insurance Company, the first company in India to offer life insurance coverage, was established in Kolkata in 1818 by Bipin Das Gupta. Its primary target market was India. [9] Surendranath Tagore had founded Hindustan Insurance Society around the same time, which later became the Life Insurance Corporation. [10]
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The Bank of Hindustan was a legally separate organization but was closely linked to Palmer and Co. Both companies would collapse in the 1830s, leading to the loss of deposits for many people. While under the control of the East India Company, these agency houses contributed to establishing the Tinkathia System , which would prove to be a major ...
OICL was incorporated at Mumbai on 12 September 1947. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Oriental Government Security Life Assurance Company Ltd and was formed to carry out general insurance business.
By 2017, it was the country's third-largest private sector life insurance company [6] with a 16.5 percent share of total private-sector premiums for the Financial Year 2017 and fourth largest in the life insurance industry based on premium earned and had 66,372 individual agents across India, comprising 6.8 percent of total private agents in ...
Modern banking in India originated in the mid of 18th century. Among the first banks were the Bank of Hindustan, which was established in 1770 and liquidated in 1829–32; and the General Bank of India, established in 1786 but failed in 1791.