Some Important thing about Indian Bank

1. ICICI Bank was the first bank to provide Mobile ATM
2. Bank of Baroda has the maximum number of overseas branches.(also called India's International bank)
3. India’s first “Talking” Automated Teller Machine (ATM) launched by Union Bank of India
4. (UBI) for visually impaired, was launched in Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
5. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) launches India’s first rural bank ATM card with a regional rural bank in Varanasi.
6. First bank established in India : Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
7. Second Bank : General Bank of India, 1786
8. The Imperial Bank of India (IBI) was the oldest and the largest commercial bank of the Indian subcontinent. It was created in Jan 1921 by amalgamation of three presidency banks, those are-

• Bank of Bengal
• Bank of Bombay
• Bank of Madras

After nationalization in 1955, the Imperial Bank of India was named as State Bank of India
(SBI)State Bank of India merged with three banks namely Bank of Bengal, Bank of Bombay and
Bank of Madras in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India which was converted as State Bank of
India.

• First Indian bank got ISO : Canara Bank
• First Indian Bank started solely with Indian capital investment is PNB (Punjab National Bank).
• Founder of Punjab National Bank is Lala Lajpat Rai.
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was instituted in 1935.
• First Governor of RBI : Mrs. Osborne Smith
• First Indian Governor of RBI : Mr. C
• Parliament photo is printed on Rs. 50 note
• Dhandi Satyagraha picture is on Rs. 500 denomination.
• Rs. 10 is the largest circulation denomination.
• “Rupee” symbol is designed by Uday Kumar, Tamil Nadu.
• The symbol adopted for the Indian Rupee is Devanagari Script.
• Plastic Currency issued first by Australia.