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- Capital Small Finance Bank Limited Capital Small Finance Bank Limited (CAPITALSFB.NS), India's first small finance bank headquartered in Jalandhar, Punjab, and founded in 1999 as Capital Local Area Bank before transitioning in April 2016, provides a comprehensive range of banking and financial services focused on middle-income customers in rural, semi-urban, and urban areas across northern India, primarily Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. The bank offers secured lending products including agriculture loans such as Kisan Credit Cards and term loans; MSME and trading loans comprising working capital and machinery loans; mortgage and housing loans; corporate loans; and consumption loans; alongside deposit products like savings accounts, current accounts, and term deposits; as well as money transfers, insurance, forex services, internet banking, mobile banking, locker operations, and RuPay cards accepted across ATMs, POS terminals, and e-commerce platforms. It maintains a diversified advance portfolio with no direct exposure to microfinance institutions and operates through an extensive branch network exceeding 150 locations. In recent developments, the bank listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange via IPO in early 2024, approved vesting of employee stock options in October 2025, reported robust Q2 FY26 results with deposits reaching 9,317 crore rupees up 20% year-over-year, advances at 7,907 crore rupees, profit after tax of 35 crore rupees, gross NPA at 2.70%, and capital adequacy ratio of 24.2%, and continues strong deposit mobilization and profit growth at a 39% CAGR over five years.