Karur Vysya Bank is a Scheduled Commercial Bank in India. It has completed 100 years of operation and is one of the leading banks in India, headquartered in
Karur
Karur () is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karur is the administrative headquarters of Karur district. It is located on the banks of Amaravathi River, River Amaravathi, Kaveri and Noyyal.
Karur is well known for the export of Home Te ...
in
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
. It was set up in 1916 by M. A. Venkatarama Chettiar and Athi Krishna Chettiar. The bank primarily operates in treasury, corporate/wholesale banking and retail banking segments.
KVB provides services such as personal, corporate, agricultural banking and services to NRIs and
MSME
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. Under personal banking, the bank provides housing loan, personal loan; insurance; and fixed deposits among others. Under corporate banking, KVB provides services like corporate loans; demat account, multicity current account and general insurance among others. Schemes provided by KVB under agricultural banking include Green Harvester, Green Trac and KVB Happy Kisan among others. Under MSME, the bank provides products such as KVB MSME Cash, KVB MSME Term Loan, KVB MSME Vendor Bill Discounting and KVB MSME Standby Term Loan among others. The bank had added more branches and 10 ATMs during the year thus bringing the total to 798 branches and 1,780+ ATMs as on 1 July 2018. It introduced a number of initiatives in FY16 like reloadable cards, kisan credit cards, automatic passbook kiosk, e-book, etc. The latest being introduction of fast tag and UPI based payment system. Total business volume is 1,25,000+ crore as of 31st March 2022.
History
The Karur Vysya Bank Limited, popularly known as KVB was set up on 25 July 1916 by M. A. Venkatarama Chettiar and Athi Krishna Chettiar, to capitalise on the previously unexploited market of traders and agriculturists in and around
Karur
Karur () is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karur is the administrative headquarters of Karur district. It is located on the banks of Amaravathi River, River Amaravathi, Kaveri and Noyyal.
Karur is well known for the export of Home Te ...
, a town in
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
.
Though the bank started with a seed capital of , as with most banks, the seed capital has grown, as have the services sold. The bank is managed and guided by the Board of Directors drawn from different fields.
Realising that there is more money elsewhere, the bank expanded out of Karur and established approximately 668 branches in other States and Union Territories in order to gain a pan-India presence.
Shri K.K. Balu was appointed as an Additional Director of the Bank on 27 January 2012
The Bank has celebrated its Centenary celebrations on 10 September 2016 at Chennai with the then
President of India
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Shri.
Pranab Mukherjee
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as Chief guest.
Branch and ATM Network
![Karur Vysya Bank - Mysore Branch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Karur_Vysya_Bank_-_Mysore_Branch.jpg)
It has 779 branches and network of 1659 ATMs and around 565 cash deposit machines as on 31 March 2020. KVB has recorded a Total
Business of with deposits of and advances of .
See also
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Banking in India
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References
External links
The official site of The Karur Vysya Bank Limited
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