Bank of Bombay

Not to be confused with Bank of Bombay (1720).

The Bank of Bombay was the second of the three presidency banks (others being the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Madras) of the Raj period. It was established, pursuant to a charter of the British East India Company, on 15 April 1840.

Bank of Bombay

Bank of Bombay, 10 Rupees, 1860.
Industry	Banking Financial services
Founded	15 April 1840
Defunct	27 January 1921
Fate	Merged with Bank of Calcutta and Bank of Madras
Successor	Imperial Bank of India
Headquarters	Bombay, Bombay Presidency , British India
Area served	British India

Subsidiaries

The bank's headquarters were in Bombay, now called Mumbai. The Bank of Bombay undertook all the normal activities which a commercial bank was expected to undertake. The Bank of Bombay, in the absence of any central banking authority at that time, also conducted certain functions which are ordinarily a preserve of a central bank.

The Bank of Bombay and two other Presidency banks - the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Madras - were amalgamated and the reorganized banking entity was named the Imperial Bank of India on 27 January 1921. The Reserve Bank of India, which is the central banking organization of India, in the year 1955, acquired a controlling interest in the Imperial Bank of India and the Imperial Bank of India was renamed on 30 April 1955 to the State Bank of India.

See also

• Indian banking

Further reading

• THE EVOLUTION OF THE STATE BANK OF INDIA, Volume 1 — The Roots 1806-1876 by Amiya Kumar Bagchi

References

• Note issued by the Bank of Bombay Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine