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Company type | Public |
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ISIN | INE040A01034 |
Industry | Financial services |
Founded | August 1994 |
Headquarters | , India |
Area served | India |
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Number of employees | 177,000 (1 July 2023)[5] |
Subsidiaries | HDFC Life HDFC ERGO HDFC Securities[6] HDFC Asset Management Company HDFC Mutual Fund HDB Financial Services[7] HDFC Credila Financial Services |
Website | www |
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HDFC Bank Limited (also known as HDFC) is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest private sector bank by assets and the world's sixth-largest bank by market capitalization as of August 2023, following its takeover of parent company HDFC.[12][13][14] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has identified the HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, and ICICI Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs), which are often referred to as banks that are “too big to fail”.[15][16]
The bank was incorporated in August 1994 after its erstwhile parent HDFC received an 'in principle' approval from the RBI to set up a bank in the private sector, as part of its liberalization of the Indian banking industry,[17][18] and commenced operations in January 1995. With a market capitalization of $140 billion (as of January 2024), HDFC Bank is the third-largest company on Indian stock exchanges.[19] It is also the sixteenth largest employer in India with nearly 1.73[20] lakh employees.[21]
HDFC Bank was incorporated in 1994 as a subsidiary of the Housing Development Finance Corporation, with its registered office in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Its first corporate office and a full-service branch at Sandoz House, Worli were inaugurated by the then Union Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh.
As of 1 June 2023[update], the bank's distribution network was at 8,344 branches and 19,727 ATMs across 3,811 cities. It has installed 430,000 POS terminals and issued 23.5 million (23.5 million) debit cards and 12 million (12 million) credit cards in FY 2017.[22] It has a base of 1,77,000 permanent employees as of 1 June 2023.[23]
HDFC Bank provides a number of products and services including wholesale banking, retail banking, treasury, auto loans, two-wheeler loans, personal loans, loans against property, consumer durable loan, lifestyle loan and credit cards. Along with this various digital products are Payzapp and SmartBUY.[24]
HDFC Bank merged with Times Bank in February 2000. This was the first merger of two private banks in the New Generation private sector banks category.[25] Times Bank was established by Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd., commonly known as The Times Group, India's largest media conglomerate.[26]
In 2008, Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBoP) was acquired by HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank's board approved the acquisition of CBoP for ₹95.10 billion in one of the largest mergers in the financial sector in India.[27]
In 2021, the bank acquired a 9.99% stake in FERBINE, an entity promoted by Tata Group, to operate a pan-India umbrella entity for retail payment systems, similar to the National Payments Corporation of India.[28]
In September 2021, the bank partnered with Paytm to launch a range of credit cards powered by Visa.[29]
On 4 April 2022, HDFC Bank announced a merger with the Housing Development Finance Corporation.[30] Upon the completion of the merger, HDFC became the fourth-largest bank in the world by market capitalization.[31] The effective date of the merger was set to be 1 July 2023. After the merger takes place, HDFC, a housing financing corporation, will transfer its home loan portfolio to HDFC Bank. Also, the bank is giving home financing company depositors the choice of either withdrawing their money or renewing their deposits with the private sector bank at the interest rate that the bank is currently offering.[32]
In March 2020, Housing Development Finance Corporation, parent company of HDFC Bank, made an investment of ₹10 billion in Yes Bank.[33] As per the scheme of reconstruction of Yes Bank, 75% of the total investment by the corporation would be locked in for three years. On 14 March, Yes Bank allotted 100 crore shares of the face value of ₹2 each for consideration of ₹10 per share (including ₹8 premium) to the corporation, aggregating to 7.97 percent of the post-issue equity share capital of Yes Bank.[34]
Parivartan is an umbrella term for all of the corporate social responsibility initiatives by HDFC Bank.
HDFC Bank's Parivartan initiative spent ₹535 crore in FY 2019–20.[39]
HDFC Bank spent ₹6349.1 million towards Parivartan, in FY 2020-21. Out of ₹6349 million, over ₹1.10 billion was allocated and used towards initiatives focused on COVID-19 relief.[40]
HDFC Bank has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2032.[40]
On 2 December 2020, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ordered HDFC Bank to temporarily halt the issuance of new credit cards and all planned activities under the bank's Digital 2.0 program citing incidents of outages in the bank's internet banking, mobile banking and payment utility services.[41][42]
On 29 January 2020, RBI imposed a monetary penalty on HDFC Bank for failure to undertake on-going due diligence in case of 39 current accounts opened for bidding in the initial public offer.[43]
A HDFC bank manager was arrested on charges of fraud, involving a sum of ₹5941,000 in Odisha.[44]
Altico Capital and Dubai's Mashreq Bank have approached RBI, accusing HDFC Bank of violating regulatory provisions by debiting part of the funds the company had raised through external commercial borrowing (ECB) and parked at the bank. They claimed that HDFC bank's decision to transfer money from the account may be a violation of the RBI's end-use rule.[45]
On 27 May 2021, RBI imposed a penalty of ₹100 million on HDFC Bank for deficiencies in regulatory compliances with regard to its auto loan portfolio. The said penalty was imposed in regards to the contraventions of certain provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.[46]
In March 2023, HDB Financial Services suffered a breach exposing the data of more than 70 million customers, including email addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbers, genders, post codes and loan information belonging to the customers.[47]