Axis Bank Limited provides financial services in India and internationally. It operates through four segments: Treasury, Retail Banking, Corporate/Wholesale Banking, and Other Banking Business. The Treasury segment is involved in investments in sovereign and corporate debt, and equity and mutual funds, as well as in trading operations, derivative trading, and foreign exchange operations The Retail Banking segment engages in the provision of lending services to individuals/small businesses; liability products, card services, internet banking, mobile banking, ATM services, depository, financial advisory services, and NRI services. The Corporate/Wholesale Banking segment offers corporate advisory, placements and syndication, project appraisals, capital market related, and cash management services. The Other Banking Business segment is involved in para banking activities. The company operates 4,759 branches. It also has a network of 10,990 ATMs and 5,972 recyclers; and eight international offices with branches at Singapore, Dubai, and Gift City, India; and representative offices in Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. The company was formerly known as UTI Bank Limited and changed its name to Axis Bank Limited in July 2007. Axis Bank Limited was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Axis Bank Limited

Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture and Retail Businesses.

The Bank has a large footprint of 5000 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 15,751 ATMs & cash recyclers spread across the country. The Bank has 6 Axis Virtual Centres with over 1,500 Virtual Relationship Managers as on 31st March 2023. The Overseas operations of the Bank are spread over eight international offices with branches in Singapore, Dubai (at DIFC), and Gift City-IBU; representative offices in Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and an overseas subsidiary in London, UK. The international offices focus on Corporate Lending, Coverage Business, Trade Finance, Syndication, Investment Banking, Liability Businesses, and Private Banking/Wealth Management offerings.

Axis Bank is one of the first new generation private sector banks to have begun operations in 1994. The Bank was promoted in 1993, jointly by Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) (then known as Unit Trust of India), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), National Insurance Company Ltd. (NIC), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (NIA), The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. (OIC), and United India Insurance Company Ltd. (UIIC). The shareholding of Unit Trust of India was subsequently transferred to SUUTI, an entity established in 2003. GIC, NIC, NIA, OIC, UIIC have been reclassified from promoter category to public category. As on March 31, 2023, SUUTI and LIC are the promoters of the Bank.

With a balance sheet size of Rs. 13,17,326 crores as on 31st March 2023, Axis Bank has achieved consistent growth and with a 5-year CAGR (2017-18 to 2022-23) of 14% each in Total Assets & Advances and 16% in Deposits.



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