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- DCB Bank Limited is a new generation private sector scheduled commercial bank in India that provides a comprehensive range of retail and wholesale banking products and services; deposit products including current accounts, savings accounts such as DCB Happy Savings Account and DCB WOW Savings Account, NRI accounts, recurring deposits and fixed deposits including DCB Zippi Online Fixed Deposit; lending products encompassing home loans, personal loans, gold loans, car loans, mortgage loans, business loans, micro-SME loans, SME loans and mid-corporate loans; cards such as debit cards, travel smart cards, secured credit cards including DCB PayLess Credit Card and RuPay-powered credit cards; digital services including internet banking, mobile banking, DCB Remit for remittances and DCB EazyBee for mutual fund investments; and additional services such as trade finance, treasury operations, wealth management, insurance distribution, government business and financing for agriculture, commodities, public sector undertakings, co-operative banks and non-banking financial companies. DCB Bank operates 451 branches across 20 states and union territories in India including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Delhi/NCR, Goa and Daman & Diu, serving approximately 2.5 million customers in retail, micro-SME, SME, mid-corporate, agriculture and inclusive banking segments. The bank traces its origins to the 1930s merger of Ismailia Co-operative Bank Limited and Masalawala Co-operative Bank Limited in Maharashtra; it received its scheduled commercial bank license from the Reserve Bank of India in May 1995 as Development Credit Bank, went public via an IPO in 2006, changed its name to DCB Bank Limited in 2014 and maintains its headquarters at Peninsula Business Park in Mumbai. In September 2025, the Reserve Bank of India approved promoter Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which holds around 15% stake, to acquire up to 60.58 million additional equity shares through a preferential issue, subject to a five-year lock-in; the bank continues robust growth in advances and deposits, advances co-lending partnerships such as with Ambit Finvest for secured business loans and reported a 14% net profit increase to Rs 177 crore for the March 2025 quarter amid strategic shifts toward cost management and fee income expansion.