- Business
- CSB Bank Limited (CSBBANK.NS) operates as a private sector bank in India, providing retail banking, corporate/wholesale banking, SME banking, and treasury services to individual, NRI, small and medium enterprise, and corporate customers. The bank offers savings accounts, current accounts, salary/payroll accounts, fixed and recurring deposits, family banking products; personal loans, gold loans, vehicle loans, home loans, educational loans, taxpayer liquidity schemes; life and general insurance products through partnerships with HDFC Life, Edelweiss Tokio, ICICI Prudential, and Reliance General Insurance; digital services including net banking, mobile banking, e-passbook, bill payments, and doorstep banking; NRI services such as NRO, NRE, FCNR, RFC accounts, inward remittances, and forex; SME and corporate services encompassing term loans, working capital loans, export/import finance, letters of credit, bill discounting, cash credit, overdraft, trade finance including packing credit and export bill negotiation; and agri/financial inclusion banking. Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala, CSB Bank maintains a network of over 785 branches and 746 ATMs primarily across Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and other regions in India, serving more than 2 million customers with a strong focus on semi-urban and rural centers alongside urban expansion. Recent developments include robust growth in Q3 FY25 with deposits up 22% to Rs 33,406 crore and loans up 26% to Rs 28,914 crore, driven by 36% expansion in gold loans to Rs 13,018 crore and 28% SME business growth in Q4 FY24; strategic push into Tier-1 cities, digital lending via mobile apps, and diversification from gold loans toward pan-India presence under Vision 2030; reappointment of Pralay Mondal as Managing Director & CEO in June 2025; and a majority stake acquisition by Fairfax India in 2018 enabling capital infusion and operational scaling.