Important information on Banks

1.The oldest Joint Stock Bank of India ->Allahabad Bank
2. The bank founded by Freedom
Fighter Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi
Sitaramayya ->Andhra Bank
3. First bank to open a branch
outside India -> Bank of India,
London, 1946
4. The first bank to be given an ISO 9002 certificate for one of its
branches ->Canara Bank
5. The Postal Dept has issued a
commemorative stamp in the name of this bank celebrating 100 years in 2011 ->Central Bank of India
6. First Indian Bank to be wholly
owned by Indians->Central Bank of
India
7. The bank formed on the efforts of Lala Lajpat Rai ->Punjab National Bank
8. The only merger of nationalised
banks took place between
->Punjab National Bank and New Bank of India in 1993
9. The bank whose brand equity is
"Pygmy Deposit Scheme"
->Syndicate Bank
10. The bank which was conceived by Shri GD Birla ->UCO Bank