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Introduction To Icici

ICICI Bank is an Indian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Vadodara, India. It is the second largest bank in India with total assets of about $98.99 billion as of 2014. ICICI Bank offers a wide range of banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through various channels and subsidiaries in areas like investment banking, insurance, and asset management. ICICI Bank was established in 1994 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, a financial institution formed in 1955 with the World Bank and Indian public sector banks, to provide financing to Indian industry.

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Introduction To Icici

ICICI Bank is an Indian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Vadodara, India. It is the second largest bank in India with total assets of about $98.99 billion as of 2014. ICICI Bank offers a wide range of banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through various channels and subsidiaries in areas like investment banking, insurance, and asset management. ICICI Bank was established in 1994 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, a financial institution formed in 1955 with the World Bank and Indian public sector banks, to provide financing to Indian industry.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY

ICICI Bank is an Indian multinational banking and financial services company


headquartered in Vadodara. As of 2014 it is the second largest bank in India with
total assets of about US$ 98.99 billion for the year ended March31, 2012 and profit
US$ 1.60 billion for the year ended March 31, 2012. ICICI Bank has a network of
about 3,800 branches and extension counters and over 11,162 ATMs in India, and
has a presence in 19 countries. It offers a wide range of banking products and
financial services for corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery
channels and specialized subsidiaries in the areas of investment banking, life, non-
life insurance, venture capital and asset management. ICICI Bank is one of the Big
Four banks of India, along with State Bank of India, Punjab National
Bank and Bank of Baroda. The bank has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom,
Russia, and Canada; branches in United States, Singapore, Bahrain, Hong Kong,
Sri Lanka, Qatar and Dubai International Finance Centre; and representative
offices in United Arab Emirates, China, South Africa, Bangladesh, Thailand,
Malaysia and Indonesia. The company's UK subsidiary has also established
branches in Belgium and Germany. ICICI Bank's equity shares are listed in India
on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited
and its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) are listed on the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE).
ICICI Bank was established by the Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India (ICICI), an Indian financial institution, as a wholly owned
subsidiary in 1994. The parent company was formed in 1955 as a joint-venture of
the World Bank, India's public-sector banks and public-sector insurance companies
to provide project financing to Indian industry. The bank was initially known as
the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Bank, before it changed
its name to the abbreviated ICICI Bank. The parent company was later merged
with the bank.
ICICI Bank launched internet banking operations in 1998.
ICICI's shareholding in ICICI Bank was reduced to 46 percent, through a public
offering of shares in India in 1998, followed by an equity offering in the form
of American Depositary Receipts on the NYSE in 2000. ICICI Bank acquired
the Bank of MaduraLimited in an all-stock deal in 2001 and sold additional stakes
to institutional investors during 2001-02.
In the 1990s, ICICI transformed its business from a development financial
institution offering only project finance to a diversified financial services group,
offering a wide variety of products and services, both directly and through a
number of subsidiaries and affiliates like ICICI Bank. In 1999, ICICI become the
first Indian company and the first bank or financial institution from non-Japan Asia
to be listed on the NYSE.
In 2000, ICICI Bank became the first Indian bank to list on the New York Stock
Exchange with its five million American depository shares issue generating a
demand book 13 times the offer size.
In October 2001, the Boards of Directors of ICICI and ICICI Bank approved the
merger of ICICI and two of its wholly owned retail finance subsidiaries, ICICI
Personal Financial Services Limited and ICICI Capital Services Limited, with
ICICI Bank. The merger was approved by shareholders of ICICI and ICICI Bank
in January 2002, by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in March 2002 and
by the High Court of Judicature at Mumbai and the Reserve Bank of India in April
2002.

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