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History Stamp dedicated to the State Bank of India in 2005 Share of the Bank of Bengal, issued 13 May 1876 Seal of Imperial Bank of India. The roots of the State Bank of India lie in the first decade of the 19th century when the Bank of Calcutta (later renamed the Bank of Bengal) was established on 2 June 1806.
The oldest bank in India is The Madras Bank (1683), followed by the Bank of Bombay, founded in 1720, which is then followed by the Bank of Hindustan, founded in 1770. The oldest bank still in operation is the State Bank of India, whose origins can be traced back to the Bank of Calcutta. It was founded in 1806, though the tenth to be founded. [1]
The State Bank Archives and Museum is an initiative to document and preserve the history of banking in the Indian subcontinent. [1] [2] The archive and museum opened on 13 May 2007 in the State Bank of India (SBI) headquarters in Kolkata .
The chairman of the State Bank of India is the chief executive officer of India's largest scheduled commercial bank and the ex-officio chair of its Central Board of Directors. Since its establishment in 1955 by the government of India , the State Bank of India has been headed by twenty-six chairpersons.
History Emergence of public sector banks. The Central Government entered the banking business with the nationalization of the Imperial Bank of India in 1955. A 60% stake was taken by the Reserve Bank of India and the new bank was named State Bank of India.
Preceded by. Rajnish Kumar. Personal details. Born. ( 1961-08-28) 28 August 1961 (age 62) Residence. Mumbai, India. Dinesh Kumar Khara (born 28 August 1961) is a career banker and Chairman of the State Bank of India a position he assumed on 7 October 2020.
The Reserve Bank of India, India's central banking authority, was established in April 1935, but was nationalized on 1 January 1949 under the terms of the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 (RBI, 2005b). [31] In 1949, the Banking Regulation Act was enacted, which empowered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to regulate ...
The Imperial Bank of India ( IBI) was one of the oldest and the largest commercial banks in India, and was subsequently renamed and nationalised as the State Bank of India in 1955. Initially, as per its royal charter, it acted as the central bank for India prior to the formation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1935.