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- AU Small Finance Bank Limited operates as a scheduled commercial small finance bank in India that provides retail banking, MSME lending, and financial inclusion services to underserved and underbanked segments; its core products and services include savings accounts, current accounts, fixed deposits, recurring deposits, personal loans, vehicle loans, home loans, business loans, gold loans, microfinance loans, credit cards, insurance products, and digital banking solutions via the AU 0101 app. Founded in 1996 as AU Financiers (India) Limited, a vehicle finance NBFC, by Sanjay Agarwal and headquartered in Mumbai with a network of over 2,600 branches across 21 states and 4 union territories, the bank serves approximately 12 million customers with a balance sheet exceeding INR 1.60 lakh crore, a deposit base of INR 1.28 lakh crore, and a loan portfolio of INR 1.18 lakh crore as of June 2025. Recent developments include the completion of its acquisition of Fincare Small Finance Bank on April 1, 2024, through a stock swap merger that expanded its geographic footprint into southern and eastern India and boosted its asset base and customer access; a strategic corporate agency partnership with SBI Life Insurance announced in August 2025 to offer comprehensive life insurance solutions; the transfer of promoter shares to a non-operative holding company and relocation of its corporate office to Mumbai in August 2025 to strengthen pan-India presence; and in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India on August 7, 2025, to transition into a universal bank, marking the first such approval for a small finance bank in 11 years.