INTRODUCTION OF SBI

The origin of the State Bank of India goes back to the first decade of the nineteenth century
with the establishment of the Bank of Calcutta in Calcutta on 2 June 1806. Three years later
the bank received its charter and was re-designed as the Bank of Bengal (2 January 1809). A
unique institution, it was the first joint-stock bank of British India sponsored by the
Government of Bengal. The Bank of Bombay (15 April 1840) and the Bank of Madras (1
July 1843) followed the Bank of Bengal. These three banks remained at the apex of modern
banking in India till their amalgamation as the Imperial Bank of India on 27 January 1921.

Primarily Anglo-Indian creations, the three presidency banks came into existence either as a
result of the compulsions of imperial finance or by the felt needs of local European
commerce and were not imposed from outside in an arbitrary manner to modernise India's
economy. Their evolution was, however, shaped by ideas culled from similar developments
in Europe and England, and was influenced by changes occurring in the structure of both the
local trading environment and those in the relations of the Indian economy to the economy of
Europe and the global economic framework.

The State Bank of India, the country’s oldest Bank and a premier in terms of balance sheet
size, number of branches, market capitalization and profits is today going through a
momentous phase of Change and Transformation – the two hundred year old Public sector
behemoth is today stirring out of its Public Sector legacy and moving with an agility to give
the Private and Foreign Banks a run for their money.

The bank is entering into many new businesses with strategic tie ups – Pension Funds,
General Insurance, Custodial Services, Private Equity, Mobile Banking, Point of Sale
Merchant Acquisition, Advisory Services, structured products etc – each one of these
initiatives having a huge potential for growth.

The Bank is forging ahead with cutting edge technology and innovative new banking models,
to expand its Rural Banking base, looking at the vast untapped potential in the hinterland and
proposes to cover 100,000 villages in the next two years.

It is also focusing at the top end of the market, on whole sale banking capabilities to provide
India’s growing mid / large Corporate with a complete array of products and services. It is
consolidating its global treasury operations and entering into structured products and
derivative instruments. Today, the Bank is the largest provider of infrastructure debt and the
largest arranger of external commercial borrowings in the country. It is the only Indian bank
to feature in the Fortune 500 list.

The Bank is changing outdated front and back end processes to modern customer friendly
processes to help improve the total customer experience. With about 8500 of its own 10000
branches and another 5100 branches of its Associate Banks already networked, today it offers
the largest banking network to the Indian customer. The Bank is also in the process of
providing complete payment solution to its clientele with its over 8500 ATMs, and other
electronic channels such as Internet banking, debit cards, mobile banking, etc.

With four national level Apex Training Colleges and 54 learning Centres spread all over the
country the Bank is continuously engaged in skill enhancement of its employees. Some of the
training programes are attended by bankers from banks in other countries.

The bank is also looking at opportunities to grow in size in India as well as Internationally. It
presently has 82 foreign offices in 32 countries across the globe. It has also 7 Subsidiaries in
India – SBI Capital Markets, SBICAP Securities, SBI DFHI, SBI Factors, SBI Life and SBI
Cards - forming a formidable group in the Indian Banking scenario. It is in the process of
raising capital for its growth and also consolidating its various holdings.

Throughout all this change, the Bank is also attempting to change old mindsets, attitudes and
take all employees together on this exciting road to Transformation. In a recently concluded
mass internal communication programme termed ‘Parivartan’ the Bank rolled out over 3300
two day workshops across the country and covered over 130,000 employees in a period of
100 days using about 400 Trainers, to drive home the message of Change and inclusiveness.
The workshops fired the imagination of the employees with some other banks in India as well
as other Public Sector Organizations seeking to emulate the Program.

An important turning point in the history of State Bank of India is the launch of the first Five
Year Plan of independent India, in 1951. The Plan aimed at serving the Indian economy in
general and the rural sector of the country, in particular. Until the Plan, the commercial banks
of the country, including the Imperial Bank of India, confined their services to the urban
sector. Moreover, they were not equipped to respond to the growing needs of the economic
revival taking shape in the rural areas of the country. Therefore, in order to serve the
economy as a whole and rural sector in particular, the All India Rural Credit Survey
Committee recommended the formation of a state-partnered and state-sponsored bank.

The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee proposed the take over of the Imperial Bank of
India, and integrating with it, the former state-owned or state-associate banks. Subsequently,
an Act was passed in the Parliament of India in May 1955. As a result, the State Bank of
India (SBI) was established on 1 July 1955. This resulted in making the State Bank of India
more powerful, because as much as a quarter of the resources of the Indian banking system
were controlled directly by the State. Later on, the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks)
Act was passed in 1959. The Act enabled the State Bank of India to make the eight former
State-associated banks as its subsidiaries.

The State Bank of India emerged as a pacesetter, with its operations carried out by the 480
offices comprising branches, sub offices and three Local Head Offices, inherited from the
Imperial Bank. Instead of serving as mere repositories of the community's savings and
lending to creditworthy parties, the State Bank of India catered to the needs of the customers,
by banking purposefully. The bank served the heterogeneous financial needs of the planned
economic development.

BRANCHES
The corporate center of SBI is located in Mumbai. In order to cater to different functions,
there are several other establishments in and outside Mumbai, apart from the corporate
center. The bank boasts of having as many as 14 local head offices and 57 Zonal Offices,
located at major cities throughout India. It is recorded that SBI has about 10000 branches,
well networked to cater to its customers throughout India.

ATM SERVICES
SBI provides easy access to money to its customers through more than 8500 ATMs in India.

The Bank also facilitates the free transaction of money at the ATMs of State Bank Group,
which includes the ATMs of State Bank of India as well as the Associate Banks – State Bank
of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Indore, etc. You may also
transact money through SBI Commercial and International Bank Ltd by using the State Bank
ATM-cum-Debit (Cash Plus) card.
Subsidiaries
The State Bank Group includes a network of eight banking subsidiaries and several non-
banking subsidiaries. Through the establishments, it offers various services including
merchant banking services, fund management, factoring services, primary dealership in
government securities, credit cards and insurance.

The eight banking subsidiaries are:

 State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ)

 State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH)
 State Bank of India (SBI)
 State Bank of Indore (SBIR)
 State Bank of Mysore (SBM)
 State Bank of Patiala (SBP)
 State Bank of Saurashtra (SBS)
 State Bank of Travancore (SBT)

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Personal Banking

 SBI Term Deposits SBI Loan For Pensioners

 SBI Recurring Deposits Loan Against Mortgage Of Property
 SBI Housing Loan Loan Against Shares & Debentures
 SBI Car Loan Rent Plus Scheme
 SBI Educational Loan Medi-Plus Scheme

Other Services

 Agriculture/Rural Banking
 NRI Services
 ATM Services
 Demat Services
 Corporate Banking
 Internet Banking
 Mobile Banking
International Banking

 Safe Deposit Locker

 RBIEFT
 E-Pay
 E-Rail
 SBI Vishwa Yatra Foreign Travel Card
 Broking Services
 Gift Cheques

The CNN IBN, Network 18 recognized this momentous transformation journey, the State
Bank of India is undertaking, and has awarded the prestigious Indian of the Year – Business,
to its Chairman, Mr. O. P. Bhatt in January 2008

INVESTMENT

MUTUAL FUND EQUITY SCHEMES

DABT SCHEMES
BALANCED SCHEMES
EXCHANGE TREADED SCHEMES
LIFE INSURENCE Unit Linked Products: Pension
Products:Pure Protection
Products:Protection cum Savings
Products:Money Back Scheme
Products:SBI Life - SARAL
ULIP Protection Plans: Specialized Term
Insurance:Retirement Solutions: SBI Life -
Swadhan (Group): SBI Life - Dhanaraksha
Plus: SBI Life - Grameen Shakti, Health
Products:
SBI Mutual Fund is India’s largest bank sponsored mutual fund and has an enviable track
record in judicious investments and consistent wealth creation.

The fund traces its lineage to SBI - India’s largest banking enterprise. The institution has
grown immensely since its inception and today it is India's largest bank, patronised by over
80% of the top corporate houses of the country.

SBI Mutual Fund is a joint venture between the State Bank of India and Société Générale
Asset Management, one of the world’s leading fund management companies that
manages over US$ 500 Billion worldwide.

Mumbai, August 26, 2008 – SBI Life Insurance has achieved a unique distinction of
ranking third globally in terms of number of Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) members.
Of the 40,000 SBI Life Insurance Advisors, 1,662 have qualified for the prestigious MDRT
membership. Among these, 124 qualified for Court of Table (COTs) and 20 for Top of Table
(TOTs).

RANK COMPANY NAME COUNTRY 2008

MEMBERS
1 Samsung Life Ins Korea 2,486
2 New York Life USA 2,167
3 SBI Life Insurance India 1,662
4 Northwestern USA 1,411
Mutual
5 AIA-Hong Kong Hong Kong 1,159
11 LIC of India India 595
14 HDFC Standard India 536
Life
22 Max New York Life India 343
68 ICICI Pru India 125
69 Birla Sunlife India 124
MANAGEMENT

The bank has 14 directors on the Board and is responsible for the management of theBank’s
business. The board in addition to monitoring corporate performance also carries out
functions such as approving the business plan, reviewing and approving the annual budgets
and borrowing limits and fixing exposure limits. Mr. O. P. Bhatt is the Chairman of the bank.
The five-year term of Mr. Bhatt will expire in March 2011. Prior to this appointment, Mr.
Bhatt was Managing Director at State Bank of Travancore. Mr. Bhatt has more than 30 years
of experience in the Indian banking industry and is seen as futuristic leader in his approach
towards technology and customer service. Mr. Bhatt has had the best of foreign exposure in
SBI. We believe that the appointment of Mr. Bhatt would be a key to SBI’s future growth
momentum. Mr. T S Bhattacharya is the Managing Director of the bank and known for his
vast experience in the banking industry. Recently, the senior management of the bank has
been broadened considerably. The positions of CFO and the head of treasury have been
segregated, and new heads for rural banking and for corporate development and new business
banking have been appointed. The management’s thrust on growth of the bank in terms of
network and size would also ensure encouraging prospects in time to come.

BANK OVERVIEW

STATE BANK OF INDIA

Not only many financial institution in the world today can claim the antiquity and majesty of
the State Bank Of India founded nearly two centuries ago with primarily intent of imparting
stability to the money market, the bank from its inception mobilized funds for supporting
both the public credit of the companies governments in the three presidencies of British India
and the private credit of the European and India merchants from about 1860s when the Indian
economy book a significant leap forward under the impulse of quickened world
communications and ingenious method of industrial and agricultural production the Bank
became intimately in valued in the financing of practically and mining activity of the Sub-
Continent Although large European and Indian merchants and manufacturers were
undoubtedly thee principal beneficiaries, the small man never ignored loans as low as Rs.100
were disbursed in agricultural districts against glad ornaments. Added to these the bank till
the creation of the Reserve Bank in 1935 carried out numerous Central – Banking functions.
 Adaptation world and the needs of the hour has been one of the strengths of the Bank, In the
post depression exe. For instance – when business opportunities become extremely restricted,
rules laid down in the book of instructions were relined to ensure that good business did not
go post. Yet seldom did the bank contravenes its value as depart from sound banking
principles to retain as expand its business. An innovative array of office, unknown to the
world then, was devised in the form of branches, sub branches, treasury pay office, pay
office, sub pay office and out students to exploit the opportunities of an expanding economy.
New business strategy was also evaded way back in 1937 to render the best banking service
through prompt and courteous attention to customers.

A highly efficient and experienced management functioning in a well defined organizational

structure did not take long to place the bank an executed pedestal in the areas of business,
profitability, internal discipline and above all credibility A impeccable financial status
consistent maintenance of the lofty traditions if banking an observation of a high standard of
integrity in its operations helped the bank gain a pre- eminent status. No wonders the
administration for the bank was universal as key functionaries of India successive finance
minister of independent India Resource Bank of governors and representatives of chamber of
commercial showered economics on it.

Modern day management techniques were also very much evident in the good old days years
before corporate governance had become a puzzled the banks bound functioned with a high
degree of responsibility and concerns for the shareholders. An unbroken records of profits
and a fairly high rate of profit and fairly high rate of dividend all through ensured
satisfaction, prudential management and asset liability management not only protected the
interests of the Bank but also ensured that the obligations to customers were not met.

The traditions of the past continued to be upheld even to this day as the State Bank years
itself to meet the emerging challenges of the millennium.

ABOUT LOGO
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Togetherness is the theme of this corporate loge of SBI where the world of banking services
meet the ever changing customers needs and establishes a link that is like a circle, it indicates
complete services towards customers. The logo also denotes a bank that it has prepared to do
anything to go to any lengths, for customers.

The blue pointer represent the philosophy of the bank that is always looking for the growth
and newer, more challenging, more promising direction. The key hole indicates safety and
security.

MISSION STATEMENT:

To retain the Bank’s position as premiere Indian Financial Service Group, with world class
standards and significant global committed to excellence in customer, shareholder and
employee satisfaction and to play a leading role in expanding and diversifying financial
service sectors while containing emphasis on its development banking rule.

VISION STATEMENT:

 Premier Indian Financial Service Group with prospective world-class Standards of

efficiency and professionalism and institutional values
 Retain its position in the country as pioneers in Development banking.
 Maximize the shareholders value through high-sustained earnings per Share.
 An institution with cultural mutual care and commitment, satisfying and
 Good work environment and continues learning opportunities.

VALUES

 Excellence in customer service

 Profit orientation
 Belonging commitment to Bank
 Fairness in all dealings and relations
 Risk taking and innovative
 Team playing
  Learning and renewal
 Integrity
 Transparency and Discipline in policies and systems.

Organization Structure

MANAGING DIRECTOR

CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER

G. M G.M G. M G.M G.M

(Operations) (C&B) (F&S) (I) & CVO (P&D)

Zonal off Functional Heads

Regional officers