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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 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 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).
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 ...
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).
Started in November 2005, [1] the National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) system is a nationwide system that facilitates individuals, firms and corporates to electronically transfer funds from any bank branch to any individual, firm or corporate having an account with any other bank branch in the country. It is done via electronic messages.
Immediate Payment Service is managed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and is built upon the existing National Financial Switch network. In 2010, the NPCI initially carried out a pilot for the mobile payment system with 4 member banks (State Bank of India, Bank of India, Union Bank of India and ICICI Bank), and expanded it to include Yes Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank later ...
The bank also offers internet banking, phone banking and mobile banking facilities to customers. Ujjivan SFB ATM is biometric enabled, thereby enabling customers to withdraw money through biometric authentication. [19] Customers can open their bank account in 5–7 minutes on a hand-held device through Aadhaar enabled KYC.