Kotak Mahindra Bank

The Kotak Mahindra group is a financial organization established in 1985 in India. It was previously known as the Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited, a non-banking financial company. In February 2003, Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd, the group's flagship company was given the license to carry on banking business by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd. is the first company in the Indian banking history to convert to a bank. Today it has more than 20,000 employees and Rs. 10,000 crore in revenue.

Uday Kotak is Executive Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. Dr. Shankar Acharya is the chairman of board of Directors in the company.

The Bank has its registered office at Nariman Bhavan, Nariman Point, Mumbai.

History

The Kotak Mahindra Group was born in 1985 as Kotak Capital Management Finance Limited. This company was promoted by Uday Kotak, Sidney A. A. Pinto and Kotak & Company. the customer base of this group is more than 14 lakh.Industrialists Harish Mahindra and Anand Mahindra took a stake in 1986, and that's when the company changed its name to Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited.

It bought stressed assets from a number of banks, at full loan value of Rs 1,000 crore in 2005. In January 2011, the bank reported a 32% rise in net profit to Rs188 crore for the quarter ended December 2010 against Rs. 142 crore the corresponding quarter last year.<ref...
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