Indian Overseas Bank

About Bank

Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is a major bank based in Chennai (Madras), with 2018 domestic branches and six branches overseas. Indian Overseas Bank has an ISO certified inhouse Information Technology department, which has developed the software that 2018 branches use to provide online banking to customers; the bank has achieved 100% networking status as well as 100% CBS status of branches with a total number of 2018 CBS branchs and Extension Counters. IOB also has a network of about 771 ATMs all over India and IOB's International VISA Debit Card is accepted at all ATMs belonging to the Cash Tree and NFS networks. IOB offers internet Banking (E-See Banking) and is one of the banks that the Govt. of India has approved for online payment of taxes.The bank's business more than doubled in the last four years. According to "A profile of banks (2009-10)" published by RBI, the bank's deposits increased from Rs.50529 crore as on 31.03.06 to Rs.110795 crore as on 31.03.10 and advances from Rs.34756 crore to Rs.79004 crore.

1937: Shri.M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar establishes the Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) to encourage overseas banking and foreign exchange operations. IOB started up simultaneously at three branches, one each in Karaikudi, Madras (Chennai) and Rangoon (Yangon). It then quickly opened a branch in Penang and another in Singapore. The bank served the Nattukottai Chettiars, who were a mercantile class that at the time had spread from Chettinad in Tamil Nadu state to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Burma (Myanmar), Malaya, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, and Saigon. As a result, from the beginning IOB specialized in foreign exchange and overseas banking (see below).

1960s: The banking sector in India was consolidating by the merger of weak private sector banks with the stronger ones; IOB absorbed five banks, including Kulitali Bank (est. 1933).

1969: The Government of India nationalized IOB. At one point, probably before nationalization, IOB had twenty of its eighty branches located overseas. After nationalization it, like all the nationalized banks, turned inward, emphasizing the opening of branches in rural India.

1988-89: IOB acquired Bank of Tamil Nadu in a rescue.

2000: IOB engaged in an initial public offering (IPO) that brought the government's share in the bank's equity down to 75%.

2009: IOB took over Shree Suvarna Sahakari Bank, which was founded in 1969 and had its head office in Pune. In 2001 it had acquired the Mumbai-based Adarsha Janata Sahakari Bank, which gave it a branch in Mumbai. Shree Suvarna Sahakari Bank has been in administration since 2006. It has nine branches in Pune, two in Mumbai and one in Shirpur. The total employee strength is estimated to be little over 100.